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Digital Dentures-Never Lose Your Smile Even If You Lose Your Dentures

Issue 17.13

Dentures can now have the advantages of being made digitally using computer-design and precision-milling (CAD/CAM) technology.

This new method, called AvaDent, is the first of its kind and offers several advantages over the traditional technique. First of all, the process can take as few as only two visits—the information is gathered in the […]

Geek Speak… Backups Don’t

Issue 17.13

Customers are often surprised to find that backups do not actually back up your programs. Typically, your data, pictures, documents, music, videos and sometimes email and contact lists (depending on your email program) are duplicated. What they don’t do is to make a working copy of your programs such as Office, Quicken, PhotoShop, […]

Genealogy Corner… FamilySearch.org Enhancements

Issue 17.13

If you have visited https://familysearch.org lately you have seen the banner about site enhancements to discover, preserve and share your family story. Not only can you research at FamilySearch and share your data, but you can participate in the worldwide family tree. You can correct the data that is already there, you can […]

Looking Back… Paradigm Shift

Issue 17.13

A new word that I’ve learned is PARADIGM SHIFT. Well, heading to the trusty (?) source of all knowledge…the Internet, I found this definition: a change from one way of thinking to another. It’s a revolution, a transformation, a sort of metamorphosis. It just does not happen, but rather it is driven by […]

Personal Stories Of WWII… Three Was My Limit

Issue 17.13

I was the lower ball turret gunner on Robert Parnell’s B-17 bomber crew during my tour of oriel combat as part of the 351st Bomb Group and the 508th Squadron based at Polebrook, England during World War Two. If we bombed a target to the far reaches of Germany, the typical day would […]

Understanding Your Social Security… Social Security Challenges You To A Word Game

Issue 17.13

In 1938 – only a couple of years after Social Security was signed into law — a depression-era, unemployed architect named Alfred Mosher Butts studied the front page of The New York Times to figure out how often each of the 26 letters was used. The result was a game he called Criss […]

Geek Speak… Can Your Computer Do More?

Issue 16.13

I am continually surprised by customers who have technology they have paid for but are not using. Usually it is because they have not taken the time to know what their computer can do, but often they think it is automatically going to do it without them taking the time to activate the […]

Genealogy Corner… New FamilySearch… Newer Family Tree

Issue 16.13

New.FamilySearch.org was launched to LDS members in 2007 in a slow rollout that took until 2010. There were several challenges and unforeseen problems with new FamilySearch (besides the name). It did not have the ability to correct data errors easily. It lacked meaningful sources to verify genealogical information. Some records are too large […]

Honoring The Dead

Issue 16.13

As a funeral director in our community for over 20 years, I have seen a huge sift in the way and manner which families honor their dead. Though there is no right or wrong way in which families decide to honor the family member who has died, I do believe there is a […]

How Safe And Or Secure –Truly Is A Reverse Mortgage Today?

Issue 16.13

It amazes me how many times I get asked this question and how much confusion is still in the public opinion today. Please let me lead this article by stating Reverse Mortgages today are insured and backed by the U.S. Government and or Secretary of Housing.

When a client purchases a home today […]