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July 3, 2017
P-day was a pretty crazy day today. This morning we got up and just started to clean up and then we went out and did some shopping. The Elders from Thurso were coming down so we went to Invergordon to go and email. Following emailing we just went back to Inverness we got lunch at this Chinese buffet which wasn't the best but it was okay. Then we spent the rest of the day just looking around in all the shops and man stuff here is really expense. So not going to be spending any money here. Then the rest of the day went by pretty fast. The Zone Leaders came up from Aberdeen and we spent the evening just street contacting around town and we talked to some good people but not too much came from it.
July 4, 2017
Well this morning we all got up super early and went out running and it was a lot of fun but I'm so out of shape. So going to be hitting the gym a lot when I go home.
After all the running exercise we had District meeting and it was a lot of fun. It was Elder Parsons last district meeting so we all had pie. Later Elder Wood and I went out and just got going on the day. We spent afternoon GQing didn't find too much out of it but we did go and stop by a less active and talked to her and hopefully she will be coming around to Church this Sunday. Then the rest of the day went by really fast not really sure where it all went. But we did end the night with going around to go and see Stacey. We had a great talk about the Gospel of Jesus Christ and I really enjoyed the lesson a lot. Elder Wood shared some really great stuff that I really liked. And then that was about it.
Also forgot that it was the 4th of July. There was no fireworks here…
July 6, 2017
Today was an alright day again nothing to exciting mostly because I'm forgetting about the day already. We did street contacting this morning and in the afternoon and it was alright we talked to a lot of good people. I ran into this guy from England who was up visiting the highlands with his son. And he told me about he was a really bad alcoholic and it wasn't until he came back to church that things started to improve and that he was able to find a recovery program. It was really cool but then he told me he didn't really agree with the churches in today's world and in fact he didn't even agree with his own church. So I was a bit curious and I asked him why not. He told me about he thinks the trinity is wrong and that he doesn't think they are all the same person because he can't find anywhere that really explains it. He also talked about how he doesn't think God is talking to himself in the Garden of Eden in the Book Genesis. It was pretty interesting. So we had a great chat about that and I did end up giving him the Book of Mormon in my hand and he thanked me for it and said that he will for sure read it cause he wants to find out the truth out there. Then the rest of the day was going great then I had a Korihor moment. This man was talking to us and really trying to get us to say that God doesn't exist it's kind of weird because everything he said was everything that Korihor said in Alma 30. But he didn't get struck dumb so yeah.
Then we saw Abi! Not Abby. She read my blog the other day and said that I spelled her name wrong so I'm fixing it just in case if she reads my blog again. But it was a great chat with her! She is really awesome and doing great to learn more! We talked about the plan of salvation and it was awesome. It's one of my favorite things to share with people just because it answers so many questions about life. Then that was the night.
July 7, 2017
Today was the day I was attacked by flying rats. Seagull's are just down right annoying. Well we get to the church this morning and this seagull is just going crazy and is flying at us over and over but it doesn't really hit us it's more just trying to scare us away. Because it turns out its baby or something is running around in the grass next to the church. So going in and out of the church was just having this Seagull come flying at us every time.
But the day went by really well nothing exciting happened at all. We were just mostly out finding Inverness before heading out to Invergordon to do some try byes.
The try byes were good, we got a lot of appointments set up for Sunday night. We ran into some Utah Mormons. They were on a cruise that was stopping in Invergordon. It was pretty funny, and we had some kebabs for Dinner because tomorrow is Moves call, so we'll find out what happens. I think we are both staying but I honestly never know with moves. So should be exciting.
July 13, 2017
Well a lot has happened the last few days which has been really crazy. So pretty much Monday we drove down to Aberdeen stayed the night there. Tuesday we took the car into a garage to get serviced and that took like the whole day and we were going to take the ferry that day but we had to move it to Wednesday. So after we got the car back after hours of waiting we drove to Inverness and spent the night there. The next morning we picked up the Thurso Elders, Elder Wood and his Trainee. We then drove all the way to Thurso and that was a long drive and really great landscapes. So we got to Thurso and we dropped the Elders off at their flat and we then went and got the Ferry to Orkney. It was about an hour and half ride, we got to see a lot on that ride as well, it was really cool. So checking out the ferry and then we got to Orkney and we got to the flat and it is a nice flat. One of the nicest flats I've seen, super clean and just great. Then we got going on street contacting and talking to people. We meet a girl named Natilie and we are going to see her in the future hopefully. So we then had a dinner with the Smiths and they are awesome! So that was the first night, we also had to do some shopping.
So today! Woke up and had a killer work out and got ready for the day. Did a lot of planning for the next week and there are a lot of people to teach in this area which is crazy but we'll do great! Had Dinner with the Smiths and Sister Flet (I hope I spelled that right) which was filling. Really great food up here in Orkney. After wards we went and did some service in a charity shop for the Red Cross here in Kirkwall. That was cool because we were able to talk to people and show them that we were missionaries and what not. It was a lot of fun. Then after that we had to do some studies and dinner. We were going to go and teach a lesson but that fell through so we went around to go and visit people. Trying to see everyone in the branch and meet all the investigators as soon as possible so that we can just get going and get people progressing.
So all this and I got a fun talk that I'm preparing for Sunday and I need to email a report to the home ward about my mission. I think. So got a lot to do.
July 14-16, 2017
Alright so the days have just gone by so fast the last couple of days of just figuring everything out. We've been all over the place. So yesterday it was raining a lot and we were just out talking to people and it was alright nothing to exciting we went around and tried by a few people but didn't get to much success out of that so the day ended and nothing seemed to come from it. But today! The 16 was pretty awesome.
Today was church which we have in the high school here in Kirkwall. This is the smallest church meeting I've ever been to. It was a real eye opener. I was asked to conduct the music during the meeting and that was alight and I also gave a talk and my talk was about Matt 5:14 Let your light shine. Really Matt 5:14-16 is really good. I loved it and really enjoyed talking. Probably could have done a better job because only about 30 mins to prepare for a talk isn't always enough time to sit and think about what to say, but it was good. So after church we went around to this lovely older women named Audrey. We were able to give her the sacrament and see her with the Smiths. Oh the Smiths are just amazing I love them both so much already! So after the visit we went around to go and see an Investigator named Roy. Roy is an interesting guy he doesn't feel ready to really do anything he is a great guy but there is something that is holding him back so hopefully we will help him out so that he can feel better and more ready to come to church.
Then we went around, here is the awesome part of the day so we do something called the Model Area. Where we cut up the area into small bits and we have the Bishop or Branch President pray about an area and we start chapping out that area and really do a lot of finding in that area and keep a record of it. So Pres Scollie prayed about an area and off we went and already we have 3 lessons planned for the next week! It was really cool, l I'm super excited to get all the work done.
So we email at the Library and the branch is very very little. Add we do get to Island hop every now and again. For P-day really. We were going to go today but we just have had a lot to do and won't have enough time to get back from the other islands. Elder Chapple is a funny guy from West Jordan Utah. He has pretty much read every book ever, so he loves to read. That's what he loves to talk about. I got to get going here so talk to you next week!


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Lower Austria Exhibition 2015. An excursion to the history of the region and the Alps. The exhibition takes place in Frankenfelss, Wienerbruck and Neubruck. The exhibition in Neubruck in Scheibbs shows the pioneering spirit of the Alps. Who are the pioneers of the Alpine region today and who they will be tomorrow? This question is asked by the example of the iron processing and answered through the differences and hammer mills and interactively embedded in appealing exhibition architecture.
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Mickey Thomson Truck tireMickey Thomson truck tire manufactured by Mickey Thomson Tire Company was founded in the year 1963. Design, development production and distribution of tire and wheel for all applications are the main business of the company. Main focus of the company is to design and produce innovative tread patterns and tire compounds to build the best performance tires in the world, New Tires For Sale both for on-road and off-road applications. The company has two locations in the United States, one in Ohio and the other in California. Cooper Tire & Rubber Company which is also in tire business having the head quarters at Ohio, USA acquired Mickey Thomson in the year 2003. The combined strength has further helped to consolidate the position of Mickey Thomson in the tire industry as a significant global player. The company's major brand name is "Baja" and the specific products under this brand are named on the basis of the type of the tire, such as Baja claw non radial, radial Baja claw, Baja belted and Baja radial MTZ.
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After extensive testing at Bridgestone's headquarters in Italy, leading UK motoring magazine Auto Express have published their top 16 car tyres on the market today.
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"How many people do you have to kill before you qualify to be described as a mass murderer and a war criminal?"
News of playwright Harold Pinter's death arrived in primetime, Christmas – a religious date, in Britain, for watching telly. You couldn't escape the news and the news couldn't escape reporting on Pinter's final years and his opposition to the war in Iraq, as well as his monumental literary achievements. His stance on the war demanded to be featured in the briefest of TV obituaries. Of course, in the BBC News bulletin I caught, there was no mention of the fact that, in accepting his Nobel prize for literature in 2005, he had called for Tony Blair to be prosecuted for war crimes. That would have been too much given the mince pies, turkey, pigs in blanket and booze viewers will have been digesting – going after Blair would, after all, mean hauling key government figures into the dock, too, such as justice minister Jack Straw or even prime minister Gordon Brown and we need him to steer us out of the economic downturn.
Pinter's death pushed Her Majesty into being the news programme's second item. In her speech, she had wasted no time in reminding us that troops in Santa hats are still risking their lives for us in Iraq and Afghanistan.
In his video address to the Nobel prize people three years ago he said: "The invasion of Iraq was a bandit act, an act of blatant state terrorism, demonstrating absolute contempt for the concept of international law.
"The invasion was an arbitrary military action inspired by a series of lies upon lies and gross manipulation of the media and therefore of the public; an act intended to consolidate American military and economic control of the Middle East masquerading – as a last resort – all other justifications having failed to justify themselves – as liberation. A formidable assertion of military force responsible for the death and mutilation of thousands and thousands of innocent people.
"We have brought torture, cluster bombs, depleted uranium, innumerable acts of random murder, misery, degradation and death to the Iraqi people and call it 'bringing freedom and democracy to the Middle East'.
"How many people do you have to kill before you qualify to be described as a mass murderer and a war criminal? One hundred thousand? More than enough, I would have thought. Therefore it is just that Bush and Blair be arraigned before the International Criminal Court of Justice."
While tributes have poured in for Pinter, the ultimate tribute to him will not be paid as the unrepentant duo remains outside the grasp of justice.
In 2003 I went to a Stop the War Coalition meeting in London where I heard the great man speak. In the middle of his speech he was heckled – it was a friendly heckle, in support of what Mr Pinter had been saying but clearly an unwelcome interruption. Mr Pinter responded with a pondering silence before resuming his sentence. "It's a Pinter pause!" I nearly shouted. Perhaps that's all his passing is.
Life is Beautiful
"What's that noise dad?"
"Happy Christmas!" he shouts. "No sleigh balls in Mexico Christmas. I hate sleigh balls."
"Sleigh bells, baba. Not balls."
"¡Próspero año nuebbo!"
"It's 9am!" I shout.
"Six hours to Queen's speech."
I ask for one of his blood pressure tablets and stick my head in a pillow.
"These pills are great dad, you should try them some time."
"I prefer cigarettes," he says. "Honestly, you're an old man. You should be up celebrating the birth of Christmas."
"It's Christ, dad. Christmas is a cake."
Mother is at my sister's. They will be having turkey with the rest of the family while dad and I are going to eat lamb kebabs. There was no row but it does feel like we're a splinter group dedicated to red meat.
Half an hour later I'm in the kitchen putting on a brew. Dad is grating onion.
"Do me a favour and pass the meat from the fridge," he says.
All I find in there is a half-eaten slice of cheese and a cabbage.
"What's the matter?"
"There is no meat in here."
"How can that be?" says dad, touching the interior of the fridge as if the 4lb bag of minced shoulder – ground twice – we bought yesterday from a kosher butcher might actually be there but we can't see it.
"It must be in the car," says dad.
I check the glove compartment, under the seats and the bonnet but no meat.
"Baba jan, I don't know how to break this to you but there is no meat in the car."
"What about your car?"
"We went to the butcher's in your car."
Dad opens a bottle of red wine and pours me glass – I've forgotten all about my tea. It's his way of making me feel better about the elephant in the living room – the fact that it was me who last had the meat.
We had never been to M Lipowicz, the kosher butcher's, before. The two old men who run it were shocked when the two of us we went in – two unshaven, unkempt Arabs or Pakistanis. Dad ordered some meat. It took fifteen minutes to prepare so we went to the Indian restaurant next-door for a quick curry and returned two hours later.
"Discount?" said one of the old men, stroking his beard.
"Yes," said dad. "You charge a little more for your meat being kosher, sir, no?"
"Yes," said the man.
"Well, I am Muslim – what use is kosher to me? You can discount the kosher!"
As this went on I was cowering behind a pyramid of Hebrew-lettered tins of pickled cucumbers where, reduced to infantile embarrassment by dad's haggling, I left the meat.
"I have an idea," says dad. He sticks a bag of walnuts, a gift from Iran, in the grinder in an effort to rustle up vegetable kebabs. An hour later the kitchen looks like a war zone, with flour everywhere and his test kebab in pieces. He looks distraught. I pat him on the back.
Dad calls M Lipowicz after fishing for their number online but no reply. He does a search for "Meat+Christmasday+west London+emergency" but nothing.
We watch Mary Poppins and fall asleep on the sofa. I wake up two hours later, greeted by a glass of freshly made tea. With the Queen's speech an hour away we decide to swallow our pride and drive to my sister's house. The whole family is surprised to see us and we are greeted like heroes.
"Did you bring your meat?" says my sister.
"No, we thought that would be silly," I say.
"So silly," dad pipes up, "we left it at the butcher's."
We end up eating turkey and watching the Queen on TV with the volume turned down. Dad nudges me and says: "Perhaps the English know something when they eat a dumb vegetable like turkey on such a special day. Meat would only distract us from the wonderful time we are having with the family."


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I misheard a butterfly,
and thus was it born.
Colorful, it flew forth,
flowed from French
lips and French tongue,
of mixed Franco phones
it flapped around.
All color, no substance;
in reality was drowned.
I dreamed myself a lover,
in thought she existed.
A beauty made of mere
as reality dawned,
she dried up into air.
Though hoped for,
though nearly felt,
she was never there.
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Leave to an iconic institution like the Smithsonian to bring together two iconic gourmands of our time over a quiet dinner: Michael Pollan (author of Cooked) and Ruth Reichl (former editor of Gourmet magazine and author of Delicious!). Now us mortals can be a fly on the wall to listen to what two of the biggest gourmet food influencers have to say about stirring up the next Food Revolution.
Ruth Reichl: The thing that's so odd is you've sort of become the voice of food for Americans but you didn't start off as a cook.
Michael Pollan: Not at all. My whole interest in food grew from my interest in gardens and the question of how we engage with the natural world. To go back even further, I got interested in gardens because I was interested in nature and wilderness and Thoreau and Emerson. I brought all their intellectual baggage to my garden here in New England and found that it didn't work out very well, because ultimately Thoreau and Emerson's love for nature was confined to the wild. They didn't conceive of a role for us in nature other than as admirer and spectator…which is a problem when a woodchuck eats all your seedlings. What do you do?
R: Oh! This reminds me of one of those amphora wines ! They are peculiar. You feel like this is what wines in Greece must have tasted like 1,000 years ago. It's everything Americans don't like. It's totally not charming.
P: It's definitely not charming. It requires you to pay attention. So where was I? So, much of my work grew out of this wonderful American tradition of nature writing, which I was steeped in in college and graduate school. The first food story I wrote was called "Cultivating Virtue: Compost and Its Moral Imperatives," about American attitudes toward gardening, which are uniquely moralistic. That became the first of a series of essays looking at the interaction between Americans and nature in a place that wasn't the woods, wasn't the wild. Ever since I've been interested in these messy places where nature and culture have to mix it up. And of course food—the plate—is the most important place. Though I didn't realize that at the time. First it was gardens and then the garden led to agriculture and agriculture led me to food.
R: But it must be hard. You now have this burden on your shoulder. You're sort of responsible for all of American food in some way.
P: I'm doing a pretty bad job if I am.
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A town in the Ramanathapuram district of Tamil Nadu, Rameswaram is located on Pamban Island and is separated from mainland India by the Pamban channel. Situated in the Gulf of Mannar, at the very tip of the Indian peninsula, Rameswaram is about 50kms from Mannar Island in Sri Lanka. The town is connected to mainland India by the Pamban Bridge. Hindus consider Rameswaramone of the holiest places in India and the temple town is art of the Char Dham (four most important holy centres) pilgrimage.The Rameswaram TV Tower is the tallest tower in India
Budget Hotels in Rameswaram
There are many hotels in Rameswaram. Tourists' visiting the town can stay atHotel Brindavan Residency (Tariff Rs.1,129), Hotel MCM Towers (Tariff Rs.1300), Hotel Queen Palace (Tariff Rs.1,506) and Hotel Vinayaga (Tariff Rs.1,687).
Events in Rameswaram
Annual festivals like Pongal, Dussehra, Christmas and Diwali are celebrated here. The annual two-day Saint Anthony fest at the island draws huge number of people. Other prominent celebrations include Car festival (February-March), Kavadi Festivals (April), Tiru Kalyana (July-August) and Karthika Deepam festival (November)
Tamil is the Local Language here.
Places to See in Rameswaram
Ramanathaswamy Temple and Temple Tanks (1km), Gandhamathana Parvatham (3kms) and Dhanushkodi (18kms) are places of interest in this town.
How to Get There
The nearest airport is at Madurai
Rameswaramhas its own railway station
Rameswaram bus stand provides regular bus services. Private bus operators like Universal Travels and SRM Transportsrun regular buses to and from the town. Book your bus ticket online through Ticketgoose.com.


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Nigel Farage has said it would be "ridiculous" to deny him the opportunity to take part in the televised leaders' debates before the general election.
The leader of the UK Independence Party, who triumphed in polls over Nick Clegg, the Deputy Prime Minister, after their second debate on the European Union, said that the political class was "afraid" of his party.
He was speaking after Ed Miliband, the Labour leader, said he was "not interested" in holding a debate with Mr Farage next year, and that he only cared about challenging David Cameron.
Mr Farage told The Telegraph: "I would say that if we do as well as I think we may in the European elections, that we continue to perform in parliamentary by-elections as well as we have over the last two years, then to exclude us from those debates would just look ridiculous.
"All I know is that the political class in Britain will do whatever it can to exclude Ukip from the national debate.
"They have always wanted to and the one time they broke that rule was when Clegg invited me to do these debates and look what happened. So they will go back to wanting to exclude us I'm sure. I don't know [if Cameron and Milliband are afraid of me] but they jolly well ought to be afraid of the arguments, if not me."
Mr Miliband argued that the debates should be between Labour, the Conservatives and the Liberal Democrats, as they were before the last general election. He told The Guardian: "The format we had last time with parties that have representation in Parliament is a good format.
"It is for the broadcasters to decide who they invite. They have got their own rules and they have got to follow their rules. I look forward to debating David Cameron. I am not that interested in Nigel Farage, I care about debating David Cameron."
The Prime Minister dismissed both Mr Clegg and Mr Farage as "extremists" on Europe. He said: "The problem with this debate is both of the people taking part actually have quite extreme views.
"Nick thinks there's nothing wrong with Europe and we shouldn't have a referendum; Nigel things there's nothing right about Europe and we should just get out and leave. They are both wrong. The right answer is to be tough for Britain, renegotiate, get a better deal and give people a choice of an in-out referendum."
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Sunday, January 24, 2016
No Just Write Today
I'm finishing up a big job this weekend, so I'll have to skip Just Write this week and take Monday off, too. See you on Tuesday.
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How Green was my SOA?
Profile: Jack Vaughan
As part of a large company-wide drive, IBM even promotes SOA as a play in the area of Green (energy-saving) computing. The company just released a so-called SOA Sandbox project online trial that provides instructions for building an app that provides energy usage information to end-users. Various IBM modeling tools can be used in such initiatives. We recently discussed other issues of enterprise architecture, and how it can serve in varying SOA capacities. It's a little ditty with charming title, "On establishing the link between the business and SOA with modeling."


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Guten Tag! It's Monday, time for a unique shoe review. Nat-2 is the new convertible 2 in 1 shoe. Engineered in Munich Germany, these shoes come in 20 different styles with endless possibilities to mix and match. Buy two pairs, create four different variations. Buy six….and well, you get the point. These shoes resemble the original Chuck Taylors, why not copy the king of shoes?
Enjoy the Unique shoes of the day: The Nat-2 convertibles.
The Nat-2 Features:
- 2 in 1 function (similar to an El Camino)
- Interchangeable tops, or as we like to call them, "Uppers"
- Stainless and sturdy zipper.
- Flexible abrasion resistant outsole.
- Shock-absorbing and cushioned footbed.
- Handmade – no sweatshop here.


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We knew the metallic trend was doing the rounds this Spring/Summer, but Victoria Beckham just took it to a whole new level at Cannes last week.
Posh posted an Instagram of her clocking in some glam snooze minutes, elegantly sprawled on her hotel bed, with Estée Lauder's Advanced Night Repair Concentrated Recovery PowerFoil Mask on to prep for the red carpet. And while we're totally feeling that linen bathrobe, it's the mask that really stole the show here.
Now, sheet masks are harldy a new phenomenon (not that we're complaining), so why should you put this particular one on your Sephora wishlist ASAP? Apart from great potential for cool #terminator selfies, that is?
Well, because it's basically a super concentrated version of Estée Lauder's Advanced Night Repair (which we're already huge fans of). Like the original, it's steeped in hyaluronic acid which means hydrated, plump skin for days, contains skin soothing ingredients including lady's thistle, birch extract and magnolia bark extract, and boasts of a special anti-pollution technology that equals nearly half a bottle's worth of Advanced Night Repair's exclusive ChronoluxCB™ . That's half a bottle's worth of ANR in one shot!
The foil works by trapping your skin's natural heat, which enables the serum to penetrate deeper and faster (25X faster, to be specific) and seal in moisture for days to come. A weekly ritual of this high-performance mask also has anti-aging benefits, so we're now seriously considering investing in this stuff as a boost to our regular regimens.
Victoria's not the only fan of the new mask, either; turns out it's supermodel Joan Smalls' go-to after a long day at work, too. "I always use it after a shoot," she says. "It helps to calm and hydrate my skin after having different makeup looks applied all day." Can't wait to get our hands on this stuff.


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Obituaries July 26, 2017
JoAnne Brewer Halikas
JoAnne Brewer Halikas, 86, of Newport died on May 21, 2017, in Newport.
She is survived by her husband, George; her son Stephen; her daughter-in-law Christina; and her grandsons: Jessie and Kody.
Mrs. Halikas was born on June 6, 1930, in Coplay, Pennsylvania. Upon retiring from a career in nursing, she resided in Newport. She loved her life by the lake, often predicting when it would freeze over in winter and when it would thaw in spring. In summer she marveled at the reflection of the full moon dancing on the lake.
She will be missed by many relatives and friends. Upon the request of the deceased, there will be no memorial service.
Beverly Basford Bickford Messier
Beverly Basford Bickford Messier, 85, formerly of Orleans, died on July 20, 2017 in Royal Palm Beach, Florida.
She was born on May 4, 1932, in Sheffield, the eldest daughter of Edson and Ethel (Paul) Basford.
She loved knitting, crafting, sewing and making crosses for Trinity Cross Stitchers. She missed being able to attend church, but was very happy to see Pastor Larry Gritton when he paid visits to his homebound parishoners.
She is survived by four children: Evelyn Johnson and her husband, Mike, of West Palm Beach, Florida, Gary Bickford of Paris, Tennessee, Tina Tolhurst and her husband, Mark, of Lake Worth, Florida, and Marcia Steele and her friend, Jim Strong, of Lantana, Florida; and one granddaughter Brianna Ostrom. She is also survived by three sisters: Phoebe Noyes of Union House in Glover, Gloria White of Greensboro Bend, and Lorraine Gillfillan of Nashua, New Hampshire.
She was predeceased by her first husband Glendon Bickford. She was also predeceased by three brothers: Charlie, Brian, and Bernard; and three sisters: Barbara, Myrna, and Beatrice.
Kynslee Janet Marie Peters of Albany died suddenly at home on July 18, 2017.
Kynslee was born on May 1, 2017, to her loving parents D.J. Peters and Tasha Lemieux. She was well loved by her many family members and friends during her short life.
She is survived by her parents D.J. Peters and Tasha Lemieux of Albany; her paternal grandparents Donald Peters Sr. and Joan (Lantagne) Peters of Albany; her maternal grandparents: Lori Lemieux and Bill Schneider of Irasburg, and Seth Demo and Tina Phelps of Hyde Park; her paternal great-grandparents William "Bill" Peters and Marion Dudley of North Hyde Park; her maternal great-grandparents: Steve Lemieux and Missy Parker of Bolton, and Seth Demo Jr. and Nancy Demo of North Hyde Park; and her great-great-grandfather Ken Lemieux of Stowe. She is also survived by her paternal aunts and uncles: Jeanne Peters of Albany, Jesse and Jen Peters of Albany, and Dominique Peters of Albany; her maternal aunts: Taylor Schneider of Irasburg, Ashley Schneider of Elmore, and Kiara Fortin of Coventry. Her special aunt and uncle Hope and Donnie Richards of Irasburg also survive her. She also has many cousins and other extended family who miss her very much.
She was predeceased by her paternal great-grandparents: Jeanne R. Peters of Albany, and Joe and Elin Lantagne of West Charleston; her maternal great-grandparents: Janet Lemieux of Irasburg, Robert Schneider of Derby, and Sylvia Schneider of Derby; and her uncle Lou Jensen of Irasburg.
Kynslee, your family loves you and misses you very much.
Kynslee became a hero and lives on in another baby as a heart valve donor.
Also, she touched so many hearts, loved so many, and missed so much, words can't say enough. Her loved ones will remember baby Kynslee forever; an angel in their hearts always.
Funeral services will be held on Saturday, July 29, at 11 a.m., at the Albany Church, with the Reverend Nathan Strong officiating. Interment will follow in Albany Village Cemetery.
Friends may call at the Curtis-Britch-Converse-Rushford Funeral Home located at 4670 Darling Hill Road in Newport on Friday, July 28, from 6 to 8 p.m.
Should friends desire, contributions in Kynslee's name may be made to the family in care of Natasha Lemieux, P.O. Box 159, Albany, Vermont 05820.
Online condolences may be shared at www.curtis-britch.com.
Mary Kealey Seguin, 79, of Carson City, Nevada, and formerly of Newport, died in Carson City on July 6, 2017.
A 37-year resident of Carson City, Ms. Seguin was born in Hoboken, New Jersey, on February 4, 1938. She was the last surviving daughter of Dr. Daniel S. and Mrs. Mildred Kealey. She attended school in Newport and after graduating from Newport High School she furthered her education at Dartmouth College. She then started her career with New England Bell Telephone Company and later transferred to Nevada Bell in Reno, Nevada. She retired as a district manager.
Mrs. Seguin volunteered for numerous programs and for community services in need. She was a former president of the Carson City Chamber of Commerce. She was also the former co-executive director for the Miss Nevada Scholarship Pageant and later became a court appointed special advocate (CASA) for children.
She is survived by her loving son Rick Seguin and his wife, Julie; her grandchildren: Joseph Crawford and his wife, Susan, Rick Crawford and his wife, Nicole, Mary Meyers and her husband, Gavin, Cade Seguin, and Kealey Seguin; and by great-grandchildren Brian, Christopher, Andrew, Kealey, Annabelle, Shawnnessy, Bailey, and Zoey; and son-in-law Daryl Crawford. She is also survived by brothers-in-law David Buteau and Henry Postert.
She was predeceased by her husband Eugene J. Seguin Jr.; her father Dr. Daniel Kealey; her mother and stepfather Mildred and Ed Arel; her sisters: Jane Postert and Patricia Buteau; and her darling daughter Jane M. Crawford.
A Rosary was recited on July 12, at Walton's Funeral Home in Carson City. A Mass was celebrated at St Teresa's of Avila Church in Carson City on July 13.
A graveside service will take place at 11 a.m., on Thursday, July 27, at St Mary's Cemetery in Newport, with a reception following at The East Side restaurant.
Donations can be sent to a local CASA program in Mrs. Seguin's name.
Online condolences may be shared at www.curtis-britch.com.


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Red Carpets and Paparazzi
Step out onto the red carpet in front of the flashbulbs of paparazzi cameras, and picture yourself in the glamour and drama that is the inspiration for the Hollywood Swank collection. Hollywood Swank from Catrina's Interiors brings the influence of movie premieres to life with mirrors, tufted leather accents, and mirrored panels available in two finishes including Platinum, and Polished Stainless, which allows you to choose the right color for every piece for your home.
The quality and attention to detail is masterfully evidenced throughout the bedroom, which features a wing shaped headboard that is adorned with a crystal button tufted upholstery, unique drawer fronts, and a swivel lingerie chest that cannot be found elsewhere.
Platinum Colors and Mixed Media
The four finishes of the collection are enhanced by the alligator vinyl wraps, which create an intriguing visual display. Each piece is carefully created and inspected to ensure the high standards of quality for which Catrina's Interiors is known.
Platinum colors and mixed media harmonize with each other, and are accented by polished hardware, that highlight the design, detail, and style that are synonymous with Michael Amini & Jane Seymour, a Design Collaboration. Rich velvet lining ensures the protection of your fine delicates and personal treasures, while both English and French dovetail joints create durable drawers, adding quality and style to your home.


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Directed by Michael Sucsy
Starring Channing Tatum, and Rachel McAdams, with Sam Neill, Jessica Lange, and Scott Speedman
Have you ever made a vow? Have you ever loved something so much that you always promised to protect it? I'm talking something strong like a blood oath involving multiple people, and multiple species. Then, when the fairy princess you vowed always to love and protect is kidnapped and taken hostage in the darkness of night, you have set off on a quest to rescue her and bring her back, you and your loyal band of mythical creatures. Everyone quickly and eagerly agrees and together you all form the band of "The Vow", upheld by your ancient blood oath. Of course, this movie The Vow (2012) has nothing to do with any of that whatsoever. It's a completely different sort of vow.
Channing Tatum plays Leo, a nice, humble recording studio owner, who is married to the love of his life, Paige (Rachel McAdams). On the way home, after a night out, their car is rear-ended and Paige is sent flying through the windshield. When she wakes up, she doesn't recognize Leo. In fact, she thinks she is her doctor, and the last thing she remembers is her life before Leo existed. Her estranged family returns to take care of her, and Leo has to fight for her just to come home with him. Upon returning home, life is even harder for Leo and Paige, who doesn't understand why she is an artist and not a lawyer, and remember when she exactly broke up with her ex-fiancé, Jeremy (Scott Speedman). Leo puts all his effort and energy into helping her remember because he made a vow that he refuses to break. To Paige, Leo is nothing but a stranger.
Leo believes that life is made up of a series of moments: how they met, how they fall in love and how they get married. We learn about Leo and Paige's life together through a series of flashbacks. They both have a strong love for one another, that is, until the accident, when Paige no longer remember their "moments" together and, therefore, no longer loves Leo. Leo then decides, to create new moments, and make her fall in love with him all over again. That's when the band of mythical creatures is formed. Again, I kid.
I wasn't sure about Channing Tatum in this role but he did an excellent job. By the end of the film, he was very believable as Leo. His acting is genuine, sensitive, and honest. Rachel McAdams is great as always, and she seems real as Paige, although I think Tatum steals the show. There are also good performances from Sam Neill and Jessica Lange as her conservative and forceful parents. Scott Speedman plays a likeable douchebag to perfection.
The Vow was a better film that I expected. Honestly, I didn't want to watch it at all. I wouldn't have if it weren't for my dedication to chick flicks. But, in the end, it surprised me. In fact, the ending isn't exactly what you might expect and I liked that. I don't want to spoil anything, but Paige doesn't trip, hit her head on a rock, remember everything, and run off with Leo again. The ending had a little more depth.Their are a lot of similarities to The Notebook (2004), but The Vow still stands on its own.
FORCE THE BOYFRIEND: 6.5 out of 10 (The film is mostly a male lead, good acting, direction, and cinematography)
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What better way to lose your memory, forget you lost it, and then drink
have another one?
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Another very simple game (the best kind) with a high buzz factor. Supplies: people, beer, deck of cards, empty bottle.
The deck of cards is placed on the empty bottle. Each player blows cards off the deck on the bottle in turn. The one who blows the last card off the bottle has to drink one glass of beer.
Variation: If sombody spots an ace among the cards a player blew off - that player has to drink once. So if someone blows down a bunch of cards and two aces are visible that person would drink twice.
Game source: The (Un)Official Internet Bartender's Guide
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About Allan Kelly
Allan Kelly inspires, educates and advises teams and executives creating digital products. He helps businesses improve their use of Agile approaches and serve their customers better. A natural boundary spanner who takes a broad view of interconnected activities to improve processes and generate new insights. Most of his work is with innovative teams and smaller companies - including scale-ups.
He is the originator of Retrospective Dialogue Sheets, Value Poker and Time-Value Profiles. Allan is the author of the perennial essay: "Dear Customer, the truth about IT" and books including: "Xanpan - team centric Agile Software Development", and "Business Patterns for Software Developers". He is currently completing "Continuous Digital". You can find more posts from Allan on his website here.
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The Future is Small
Posted on: Mar 06, 2018 by Allan Kelly I was interested to read the Digital Business Continuum white paper recently published by the Atos Scientific Community. In my view, a key topic in this whitepaper is about learning to think small and optimizing for small. Short feedback cycles, constant small adaptations, a multitude of local autonomous decisions, small safe to fail experiments, and more.…


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You know what? It's Friday and time to rant!
This time my rant subject is in line with what I've been learning from a mentor of mine in home business… Why fight? Why be contentious?
You might hear someone say, "Who's contentious? I'm only giving my opinion on Facebook because they're ticking me off!"
And how do you feel afterwards? Better? Or are you just more ticked off?
Why enter the fray?
Why do we have to prove we're right and the other person is wrong?
Pretty soon all that surrounds us are negative ions, prickly items that put us in a foul mood while we envisioning terrible punishments for these "stupid people."
It's like today. I got in my car to go to the grocery store. I passed through the gate at the entrance to my development proceeded to the traffic light at the intersection. I did not change lanes, cut anyone off or go too fast or too slow. However, during this ¼ mile journey, a black car with young boys in it passed me on the left displaying 'the finger' outside the windows and the sunroof and cut in front of me before we got to the traffic light. They continued this display until we parted company at the next traffic light.
I've no idea why they did this, but they made sure I saw them. I kept my face impassive, giving no indication that I saw them.
That's what I mean by contention.
After nearly two years of presidential campaigning, Americans now more in the habit of fighting for their opinion to be heard and acknowledged on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, etc. What was once a place where a steady diet of grandbaby pictures, hope-filled and sunny slogans, funny cat and dog videos, has now become a testing ground for who can rant their political sabers the loudest, making point after point to convince others to believe them.
If this actually worked, America would need no campaigning at all to learn the facts of any issue – we could all just go on Facebook and read for hours all points of view and the "facts" that everyone should believe.
Social media is becoming the tabloids of the digital age.
So what am I ranting about? In a world where all this negativity is going on, with people protesting that "he's not my president," "that women are being persecuted," that "the rights of illegal aliens are being violated," serve little purpose but to bring out those who yell loudest and longest – believing that he who yells last and loud will be believed.
So what is the plan? If Congress stopped to listen to the rantings, what do the raving folks want them to do? What law do they want passed? Do they actually think through how they would "fix" Obamacare? Or Medicare? Or anything? Does yelling and fighting online actually fix anything?
People are unfriending other people they no longer want to hear from. That's fine – it's like letting telemarketer calls go to voicemail.
I hate to break it to the ranting public, but there was an election in this country. The election went a certain way. OK. It's done. Live with it and get in touch with your Congressional representative when you believe they need to hear from you about a law that ought to be amended or retracted or introduced. That's what they are there to do. Contacting these elected officials makes them communicate what they're doing. It makes them somewhat accountable. It makes them pay attention.
But don't contact Congressional representatives who do not represent your area. These communications merely get forwarded to the right guy. Waste of time; could be weeks before they get read. IF they get read.
There's also another way to communicate, and that's through thoughts of forgiveness, love, positive thoughts and reason. These message may be sent at any time to anyone anywhere – instantaneously. Does that surprise you?
Remember the story Napoleon Hill, author of "Think and Grow Rich," recounted when he was awakened by "something" at three o'clock in the morning. He headed outside, where there were dozens of people who had also awakened. It turned out to be the celebration by thousands of troops and citizens across the ocean in Europe because World War I ended with the signing of an armistice on November 11, 1918. Their joy and happiness was communicated across the globe!
We can make a difference. But we're not going to do it by yelling at each other, calling each other names or hating each other because we don't agree. Look at the Middle East. Those hates are so far ingrained in the DNA of some, that no acceptance is possible with respect to other cultures or creeds.
What a sad reality.
What we can do is listen, read, reflect, suggest, invite to listen, invite to speak. We don't have to condemn just because they are of one party or another, or they voted one way or another. That's an automaton working – computer programming. "If she does this then I think that." Place your best friend in that opposite role, or your daughter, or your grandson. Changes perspective, doesn't it?
My biggest takeaway from my mentor today is – Center yourself, feel appreciation that you're alive. Take deep breaths, hold them a few seconds, let them go, and feel the life force within you. Deep breathing sends a signal to yourself and the universe that you appreciate your life.
We have the choice to think what we think, and isn't that a wonderful gift? Just one gift in a life to be enjoyed and appreciated.


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When, Why & How to Tell Him That You're a Transsexual.
By- Nikki
Should you tell your man that you're actually a transsexual? Are there any problems likely to occur if you don't tell him?
If you do tell him, when should you reveal the secret? How should you reveal it, and where?
I'm an over-50 TS woman who had gender reassignment surgery in 2003. I'm aware that there's a great deal of debate on this subject, so I thought I'd pass along my thoughts and experience on the subject.
"If I tell him," some believe, "he'll reject me. Maybe I don't have to tell him at all. Maybe I won't lose him if I get a relationship established first."
I think that's the thing people who don't reveal the truth are thinking about. She's thinking, I can get him to love me for the person I am, so if I tell him down the road, it's not going to make any difference." But it does make a difference. He thinks you're a genetic woman, he likely has no idea at all that you had been a male, that your vagina was made by a doctor.
It's a big risk to
think that this won't make a difference to him.
The problem with not telling him you're a transsexual
Despite what people think, love does not conquer all. On the TS's side of the problem, not owning up to the fact that you're a TS is not good for you, either. Why would you want to spend six months, a year or longer in a relationship while holding this inside? I know, it's hard, I've done it. Why carry this burden around? You will live in terror of making a mistake. You will always have this worry in the back of your mind: "I can't slip up."
I understand why a transsexual woman would be afraid to tell him. I think we need to keep her fears in mind as you're reading this article, because she doesn't know how this guy is going to react, especially if she is new at this, and she wants to be accepted. Probably, she wants a man, and if she fails with this one, and the next one, and even the next one, she can get discouraged. You have to be sympathetic to her when she thinks, "Maybe I can pull this off and I won't have to tell him."
One of the very first
things you need to be concerned about is trust. If you decided not to
tell the guy early on in the relationship that you're a TS, and this assumes
you really want a relationship, then he's going to wonder, "Well,
what else did she forget to tell me? What else is she purposely not telling
me? If she did it now, will she do it in the future? Can I trust her to
tell me the truth?"
The inevitable slip-up
At some point down the road, and as those of us who haven't told someone the whole truth about something we have done, she will slip up, she will make that mistake. She's going to say something, and the guy is going to go, "Huh? That doesn't make any sense."
I made such a mistake with my boyfriend's mother, whom I have known for years. I had had a drink or two, I was tired, and we were talking about a baseball game I attended when I was a kid. I mentioned being invited into the club house, along with my father, after the game. "Imagine that!" I said. "A seven-year-old boy, getting invited into the club house!"
His mother didn't say anything but she visibly reacted, as if to say, "What did she say?" (Yes, we talked and I explained things. We still get along great.)
(Editor's note: "Nikki's" boyfriend ended this seven-year-long relationship in November, 2008. What she said above about "still" getting along great with his mother is past tense.)
When you're very relaxed
and comfortable, you let your guard down. Same with when you are tired
or have had a couple of drinks or smoked some weed. You can easily lose
control. Do you really want to go through life worrying about this? Do
you want to carry that burden?
How he might react to the news you're a TS
I believe she's really better off telling him early on. There is potentially a lot of danger in telling him later. If you tell him later, he's going to feel crushed. He's going to feel lied to, taken advantage of, used. She's got to remember all these things down the road. Then she has to keep track of who knows what about her.
On a worst-case basis, the guy becomes violent. Or maybe he gets up and walks out of the room. Maybe he'll be understanding. "Yeah, she lied to me. It's an error of omission. She just didn't tell me. Can I understand? Do I still love her?"
The absolute worst thing is that he becomes violent. How do you prevent that, or minimize it as much as possible? Think about his personality. Is he an angry person, unhappy, or does he like to be totally in control? Is he homophobic? Listen to what he says about how he reacts to stressful situations in his life.
Look for signs and
think about how you feel he will react. Use your best judgment. Where
do you tell him? Obviously, not at night in a car parked on a lonely stretch
of road. You need privacy, of course, but try to leave yourself a way
to escape, or have people nearby so you can yell for help. I don't want
to scare you here, but we all know there are violent people in the world,
so just be careful!
How to tell him you're a transsexual
We all have our ways of approaching the subject.
"I have gender identity disorder," is how I prefer to explain. It's a medical explanation rather than a simple admission that I'm a transsexual. "There is only one accepted cure for GID, and that's gender reassignment surgery. I changed my body to match how I felt in my mind, emotionally and in my soul.
When you're talking to the guy, explain Gender Identity Disorder, explain what that is. But tell him that there is only one cure for that: Surgery, because you were a woman born in a man's body. It was a biological mistake, not an emotional or psychological mistake, it was just a physical mistake. And tell him that you took action to correct this mistake by nature through surgery.
In a nutshell: You didn't change your sex, because sex is not determined by what is between your legs! You changed your physical appearance to match the gender into which you were born. The body just didn't get the message in the womb, for whatever reason.
If you're a pre-op
transsexual, explain that you plan to have the surgery so your body matches
how you feel inside.
When to tell him you're a transsexual
Since the odds against him accepting you are HUGE, I think you're better off telling him as soon as you feel comfortable doing so.
By "When you feel comfortable telling him," I mean when you sense, when you feel there is a bonding, when you think this thing might turn into a relationship. When he's demonstrating that he likes you a lot, when he thinks there could be a future -- and you're going to feel it too -- you'd better tell him then. He's not going to like it if you wait six months, or a year, or two years or eight years before you tell him a very important thing about you, that you were not born as a female.
That you are a woman born in a male body is a concept that is not easily understood (much less accepted) by men, or genetic women, for that matter.
Wouldn't you rather
find a guy who knows, up front (or very early on), that you're a transsexual,
and is understanding of that fact? He sees the woman that you are, he
knows your body as female, even if it didn't start out that way. He already
accepts you as a woman. If he's accepting, then you know you have a pretty
special guy there.
Your investment in time and emotions
What is the worst thing that can happen if you tell him early? He splits -- and hopefully he doesn't become violent. He may say something to you that's nasty, but the earlier you bring it up, the less he's going to be hurt. And actually, the same applies to you. When you start a relationship, you start investing in this other person. Yes, you're investing emotion and time -- and this is pretty natural between men and women, obviously -- you begin to ask yourself, is this someone I could spend a lot of time with? Six months? Maybe a year? Or a lifetime?
Why do that with someone who may split on you once you reveal the truth about your past? You are going to hurt. And then you're going to have to start all over again.
So the sooner you tell him, the less emotional investment you have in the relationship, and the less you will hurt if he walks away. He will hurt less, too. And this will reduce the likelihood of a nasty reaction, or worse.
If you need to start
over, don't think there aren't any men who don't want a transsexual. They
are out there. I know that from personal experience.
The loss of trust: It's like having an affair
You really don't want to betray someone's trust. It's like having an affair, in a way. If you confess to it or get caught, even if your relationship survives the affair, you will never, never, never regain that level of trust you had before the truth came out. Even if you are extremely apologetic, "I was stupid, I screwed up, I'm sorry, it will never happen again," in the back of his mind, he's thinking, "She deceived me once, is she ever going to do it again? Has she done that before?" No matter what you may do to try to fix things, somewhere in the back of his mind he is going to remember you had that affair and he's never again going to be 100% comfortable with you again.
So you love this guy,
and he loves you. Let's say you're two years into the relationship before
you tell him that you're TS. Even if he can accept that, you have damaged
his trust in you. It's going to come up again, whenever he wonders about
the truth of something you've said. How many times do you want the matter
of your having deceived him over the GID issue thrown back into your face
by the man you love more than anyone else in the world?
Is not telling him early on worth the price?
I can't think of any advantage in not telling him. Where is the advantage?
If you slip up and reveal the truth to your man -- like I did with my boyfriend's mom, "…A seven-year-old boy," he may react immediately. Maybe he won't react right away. If he didn't hear you, consider yourself to be very lucky. Or maybe he heard you and it didn't register right away. Six weeks might go by before it dawns on him.
I'm not bashing men here. Men's brains and women's work very differently, we all know that. But maybe one day he is reflecting on that conversation and he suddenly realizes what you said that hadn't registered earlier.
"Holy crap, she said what? It's not possible she could have been a guy!"
And then when he sees you next, he says: "Remember when we were talking about (whatever), you said, 'When I was a guy.' What the f*** was that about?"
Hang in there, girl
Yes, we all have secrets.
We all have something that we don't tell someone else, but these things
usually don't relate to the relationship.
Many men will be OK with your transsexuality
So you may end up going through several men to find one right for you, just as men go through several women to find the right one for them. There are a lot of men out there who will be fine with your being transsexual. I have one, and dated others who were OK with that before I met him.
Some of the men you meet will just be looking for sex. Don't feel that's all any man will want from you. Genetic women go through exactly the same thing before they find the right guy.
You may have had the surgery. You can live as a woman, you can have sex as a woman, but many of us don't feel complete until we have a man. One of the reasons is that he helps reaffirm your femininity, which is very important to me, and I think also important to almost every girl. He wants to treat you as a woman. He wants to have sex with you as a woman.
Don't you want that for yourself as soon as you can get it? You get it by disclosing everything to this guy. If he's understanding and accepting, think about how good this relationship is going to be.
It's precisely the same in any other kind of romantic relationship, no matter if you're a GG, a guy looking for a woman, or if you're a gay male or a lesbian. The sooner you disclose everything to your partner, the sooner you will know whether you have a future with that person, and that's good for everyone concerned.
If he's not OK with your GID, then he's obviously not the right guy, and it's better to find out today rather than tomorrow. That way, you can move on and be in far less pain in doing so.
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Edward Szmuc, MD, FACOG
Retirement Announcement
Dr. Edward Szmuc joined Southwest Contemporary Women's Care in November 2015. Dr. Szmuc completed his degree at the University of Toledo School of Medicine. He followed with his residency at Boston University School of Medicine.
Dr. Szmuc served as Past Chairman of the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Banner Desert Medical Center, Mesa, Arizona. He was also President of the Medical Staff at Banner Desert Medical Center and Cardon Children's Medical Center for two years, 2012 and 2013.
Dr. Szmuc is Board Certified with the American Board of Obstetrics and Gynecology and is a Fellow of American College of Obstetrics and Gynecology. For more information on Dr. Szmuc, visit his website.
Dr. Szmuc sees patients at our Tempe Office.
Medical School
- University of Toledo School of Medicine
- Toledo, Ohio
- Graduated - June 1979
- July 1979 - June 1980
- Framingham Union Hospital
- Framingham, MA
- July 1980 - June 1983 (OB/GYN)
- Boston City Hospital
- Boston, MA
Board Certification
- The American Board of Obstetrics and Gynecology


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Senior Day for the Bronco men's basketball team is Thurs., Feb. 28 vs. LMU at the Leavey Center. Game time is set for 8 pm, but Senior Day festivities will start around 7:45 pm for the five seniors who will also all start the game.
The five seniors, Marc Trasolini, Raymond Cowels III, Kyle Perricone, Niyi Harrison and Kevin Foster, all sat down individually this week to talk about Bronco Senior Day. They were each asked three questions in an interview that includes highlights of their career.
1. Has your time at Santa Clara gone by fast or slow?
2. What is your favorite team memory?
3. What is your favorite individual memory or accomplishment?
Tuesday the video on Marc Trasolini was completed and posted.
Click here to watch the senior video on Marc Trasolini
Click here to watch the senior video on Niyi Harrison
Click to watch the senior video on Kyle Perricone
Click here to watch the senior video on Raymond Cowels III


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The Auxiliary began in 1977 when bylaws were written for the then "Oxford Manor Auxiliary," and some of our original members are still involved to this day.
The Auxiliary opened a gift shop, The Gift Box, in 2005, and in 2007, the New To You (NTY) Thrift Shop was established. The NTY has grown over the years to become our most successful fund raising project.
Nothing in our history would have been possible without the many dedicated members. We look forward to helping to provide for the needs of residents of Ware Presbyterian Village for many years to come.
Executive Directors
Julie DiVittorio - President
Polly Moreland - V. President
Leslie Moyer – Secretary
Carolyn Gandin - Treasurer
Linda Boddy - Asst. Treasurer
Kitty Jones - Corresponding Secretary
Board Members
Gladys Belcher
Margaret Black
Marguerite Forbes
Judy Hastings
Mary Alice Hoffman
Libby Miller
Kathleen Moore
Millie Loughhead
Anita Reed
Virginia Shainline
Arlene Singleton
Irene Strode
Elaine Staunton
Frances Wolf
Ware Staff Liaisons
Pam Bolt and Tami Bennett
We invite you to help support the mission of the Ware Presbyterian Village Auxiliary. All are welcomed – all are needed!
Download a PDF of the membership application.
Please print and complete the form and mail it with your check for the annual membership dues ($5.00 minimum per person) or lifetime membership dues ($100.00 minimum per person). Please make checks payable to Ware Presbyterian Village Auxiliary.
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The flight to financial quality: what are the threats to UK businesses and the economy?
Professor Mark Freeman is speaking at Beaumont Robinson's annual client seminar on world debt and investing in the current climate on 11 October 2011. Mark is due to address the World Bank in New York on the following weekend.
According to the IMF Financial Stability Report, September 2011: "Financial stability risks have risen sharply in recent months, as slower economic growth, market turbulence in Europe, and the credit downgrade of the United States have weighed on the global financial system."
Unsurprisingly, this has been associated with a significant downturn in business, consumer and investor confidence, which has led to a major flight to financial quality (movement by investors to purchase safer investments) over the last six months.
What is the impact on the sovereign debt position?
The market has become much more discerning when choosing which Government bonds it views as being "safe". Crucially, the UK Government is seen as being a relatively safe haven, which has allowed it to borrow extensively at extremely low interest rates.
High debt and low interest rates means that the Government projects interest payments of £46.5bn in 2011-12 vs. for example £35.9bn on defence (HM Treasury Spending Review).
What are conditions like for the UK's retail banks?
In light of the reasonably benign conditions for UK Treasury borrowing, banks are recovering from the credit crisis and are now facing the impact of a Euro-zone debt crisis. The continued high risks to banks means that they are also looking for quality both through holding Government debt and changing financial positions with the Bank of England.
What is the impact on UK businesses?
Changes in Special Liquidity Scheme repayments have meant that lenders have continued to repay more of the support funds than had been previously arranged in the voluntary repayment plan (European Mortgage Federation Quarterly Statistics, 2011 Q1).
As a consequence, conditions have remained very difficult for corporate borrowers.
However, despite this firms remain buoyant. ICAEW and Grant Thornton's UK Business Confidence Monitor for quarter 3 of 2011 says that concerns about access to capital have reduced since the recession. Only 19% of firms said it is more difficult to access funds than it was a year ago compared to nearly 40% of firms in the third quarter of 2009.
What are the key threats facing businesses and the UK economy?
Taking all of this into account, there are a number of threats facing the UK economy
- A major European sovereign debt crisis that leads to a banking problem in France – which in turn affects the UK through contagion
- A worsening of UK Government debt management which leads to the UK no longer being viewed as a "safe haven"
- A rise in UK interest rates – both for the Government budget and firm borrowing
- A double-dip recession
My advice to investors at this time is to stay safe. Reduce your assets and don't take on any risky investments until the European and worldwide economy is more stable.


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Claire was brought up in Aberdyfi from the age of six and is very much 'part of the village'. As a child she was encouraged to draw and paint by her Father, watercolour artist Edward Morris, often going out with him on location.
In 1982, after a couple of years living abroad in Hong Kong, Claire took over the running of the Gallery, continuing to show her Father's paintings, her own and her husband Glyn's work.
Claire continues to experimented with different media and has recently produced some vibrant acrylic ink paintings, although watercolour is still her favourite medium.
Claire is happiest painting on location and can often be seen around the village and wider area endeavouring to capture the stunning scenery the area has to offer.
Alongside her painting, Claire finds great pleasure in selecting diverse handmade giftware and jewellery - much of which is sourced from local artists.


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High winds and water cold enough to kill were no match for a Coast Guardsman who swam out into high seas to answer a distress call.
During the wee hours of Tuesday morning, a Coast Guard helicopter was called to save the crew of a floundering 52-foot commercial shrimp fishing boat.
The vessel had lost power and was taking on water, and the four-person crew had abandoned ship; they were bobbing aboard a life raft in 5-foot waves off the Oregon coast when the helicopter arrived.
The copter lowered Petty Officer 2nd Class Darren Harrity into the 57-degree water. Normally, he would have attached a harness to each of the castaways to lift them back to the helicopter, but the hoist broke – the chopper couldn't pick up any of the survivors.
Brave Young Boys Rush into Burning Home to Rescue Children
So the petty officer had to go with Plan-B, swimming each survivor to shore 250 yards away. one at a time. In total, he swam more than a mile back and forth. The helicopter stayed overhead, but all its crew could do was watch as Petty Officer Harrity made those four trips between life raft and shore until he got all the fishermen to safety.
Harrity told KOIN News that he talked to each one and calmed them down before beginning his four trips to shore. Paramedics were waiting on the beach and all four survivors are doing well.
His Coast Guard Commander, Robert Workman, praised the rescue swimmer for a "fantastic job" getting the crew to shore "through waves, surf and darkness."
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"We've been using AppTrailer to promote our GameFinder app in several countries. We are very satisfied with the results and have been positively surprised by the high user quality."
- Hitfox Group
SAN FRANCISCO (PRWEB) December 12, 2012
SponsorPay, the leading value-exchange advertising company, announced the launch of AppTrailer™, a new user acquisition product for iOS, Android and Facebook apps. AppTrailer™ engages users with a short video that showcases unique features and content of an app or game. At the video's completion, viewers are presented with a customizable download screen where they can directly install the game or app.
"Acquiring engaged users is priority number one for app developers and AppTrailer has proved to be very effective in this regard," said Janis Zech, CRO and co-founder of SponsorPay. "It provides users with the right amount of information they need to make a download decision followed by easy access to the game or application."
AppTrailer is already delivering impressive results. Install rates are consistently between two and six percent –substantially higher than other channels. Consequently, it is an incredibly cost-effective solution for application distribution.
"We've been using AppTrailer to promote our GameFinder app in several countries. We are very satisfied with the results and have been positively surprised by the high user quality," said Jan Beckers, CEO and founder at leading games distribution company builder Hitfox Group.
SponsorPay offers a self-service dashboard to set up an AppTrailer™ campaign within minutes for developers that have a YouTube video available. For app developers that haven't designed videos yet, SponsorPay offers a turnkey solution to create a trailer through a partner agency. The platform works as a bid-based system that gives developers the ability to adjust their bids in real-time and arrive at an effective cost per install (CPI) whilst simultaneously steering user volumes.
SponsorPay has hundreds of value-exchange platform integrations across apps on iOS, Android, Facebook and the web, establishing itself as a leading user acquisition and monetization solution. The launch of the new product comes on the heels of a strong third quarter in which the company extended its platform by establishing new key partnerships and continues its exceptional growth in the mobile sector.
About SponsorPay
SponsorPay is a value-exchange advertising platform providing high-quality brand engagement for advertisers and driving user acquisition as well as content monetization for publishers.
Our innovative BrandEngageTM solution offers rich user-initiated experiences for premium brands including social video and engagement campaigns. Our platform also delivers industry-leading results on direct response campaigns for performance advertisers. Simultaneously, we enable publishers and developers of social, mobile and online games and apps to monetize non-paying customers as well as acquire loyal users in a cost-effective manner.
We work with thousands of partners, including leading publishers Zynga, Electronic Arts, Ubisoft, Outfit7 and Animoca, as well as renowned advertisers Coca-Cola, Samsung, Microsoft, McDonald's and Volkswagen, across platforms such as Facebook, iOS and Android.
Investors include Team Europe, Hasso Plattner Ventures, Kite Ventures and Nokia Growth Partners. The company is headquartered in Berlin with offices in San Francisco, Los Angeles, New York, London, Paris, Istanbul and Tokyo.
For more information, visit http://www.SponsorPay.com or follow @SponsorPay on Twitter.
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"ThredUp is like an online consignment store. They only accept like new kids items (and even weed out the "crummy" store brands for you!), and while they are more spendy than say Goodwill clothes run–you can outfit your kid in unique togs for a fraction of what you'd spend if you were shopping retail. I've ordered from them at least a dozen times, and I've been pleased with almost everything (I'll cover that in a minute).
I've snagged special occasion items, new with tags items, REALLY high end items, and a little bit of everything–and all from the relative comfort of my own home (toddlers running around anyone?). I've referred friends, and have ordered boxes as gifts. If you love to shop, and love NOT having to leave home to do it–you may want to check them out."


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I love to wake up with that fabulous hair. Here are a couple tips on how to wake up looking awesome!
The night before:
1. Braid it before going to bed.
2. Try to keep your hair out of your face when sleeping, so you don't get your face all oily. Try an elastic headband!
3. Don't want a braid? Twist a bun to the top of your head.
4. While your hair is wet, spray some volume spray
5. Apply a texture spray to wet hair and french braid it.
The morning of:
1. Slick back your hair and put it into a high ponytail for dirty hair.
2. If you have dirty hair, curl it. Curly hair holds the best curls.
3. Or, put it in a messy bun. It adds to the look.
4. French braid it!


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Low grades got you down? Let Miley help
Other than serve as a warning to kids on how not to act in public, Miley Cyrus can also help students get better grades.
While classical music and productive learning are widely considered to be the perfect couple, that adage is only true when it comes to mathematics. According to Emma Gray, a clinical psychologist commissioned by Spotify to study the effects of music on learning, music with 60-70 beats per minute (BPM) can help students stay focused longer and retain more.
Music with beats that range from 50-80 bpm has a calming effect on the mind. While that might not have been the original intent of Miley's We Can't Stop or Justin Timberlake's Mirrors, students of science, humanities and languages would benefit from pop acts.
Students of English, drama or art use the right side of their brains, where emotive music makes the biggest mark, like Katy Perry's Firework and the Rolling Stones' I Can't Get No (Satisfaction). Those kinds of high-energy songs rev up excitement and open the door to creativity.
Spotify created a few great playlists for studying.
For math students:
For science, languages:
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About Us
The International Rebecca West Society was founded in 2003, by Bernard Schweizer, a West scholar, Helen Macleod Atkinson, West's grand niece, and Carl Rollyson, a West biographer.
The society exists to encourage and create interest in this magnificent twentieth-century writer, and hopes to attract a diverse audience: scholars who work in literature, history, politics, philosophy, journalism, and women's studies; critics who write for academic and popular audiences; and readers who want to experience a great polemical thinker and extraordinary stylist. We hope to foster conversation among all people interested in her work, and to make her name and works better known.


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"After a life suffering from chronic anxiety, depression, acne, weight issues, bloating and adrenal fatigue, in 2009 after a tragic event I decided to turn my life around. Believe it or not, it only took me three months to heal myself completely of all these stress-related illnesses that I had accepted as a normal part of life.
I want you to also feel in control of your health and life, and stop letting it control you. It's simple and you CAN do it too!
What You Get With Your Program
The De-Stress Workout Program contains everything you could need to confidently start to integrate movement into your life. Safely tone and shape your body with specially designed three-times-weekly workouts that lower cortisol levels and increase energy. Heal stress without adding any more.
A Guide Based On Scientific Research
This book was written based off of cold, hard facts. These are not opinions or ideas made up on a whim. The information in this Guide was provided by results of scientific studies. Experts who have studied the ins and outs of cortisol and weight gain, exercise intensities and weight control and much more.