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For many years, the Lycopene supplements I have taken were manufactured with "Lyc-O-Mato", which is the trademarked name of the Lycopene produced by LycoRed Natural Products. In the past year or so, Lycopene supplements with Lyc-O-Mato have been disappearing or what seems to be permanently out...

Our 2019 house was built in a housing tract of ~120 houses in the Edwards Plateau/Hill Country section of Central Texas. The backward has about 2,400 sq ft of planting space that is currently all Bermuda grass (ugh!). Worse than that, dig down 1" or so under the grass, and there is limestone...

Much of this I have already posted on other threads, but I decided to consolidate the information to this one. On January 9th, I submitted a SS application to start my SS benefit this month to receive my first SS payment next month (April 2024). On the SS application was a checkbox to also start...

So, I missed the part prior to purchase where installing TurboTax on my PC from disk now requires an Intuit account. I don't have one, nor do I want one. Just more invasion into personal privacy. Assuming I don't want to continue, what are other options? I've been using TurboTax since 2000...

A couple of days ago, I received two emails from PayPal indicating I had two invoices requesting payment from separate individuals. I logged directly into PayPal and, sure enough, there were two invoices for roughly $899 each. No clue what prompted them, but I find it annoying after 20+...

I am looking for suggestions of a music app for my iPhone 13. I do not use iTunes, nor do I intend to. I do not use a cloud service for my music, nor do I intend to. We own well over 1,000 music CDs. I have enough music to not need a service to download more, at least at this time. I have...

I have been wearing progressive eyeglasses for well over 20 years. While they work well for distances and driving, they are a compromise with computer monitors and reading books/eBooks. Choosing a frame with a taller and wider lens area didn't help all that much. Lately, I've been finding...

Setup: Windows 10 Pro, Office 2010 Word and Excel The following occurs for both Word and Excel. When I select "Save As" from the File menu, I get a menu that includes a "File Name" field. If I click on the down-arrow on that field, I get a list of files I previously saved this way. I would...

Anyone else having problems getting into BofA's Bill Pay online menus the past few days? I can get anywhere else in our online account, but not the Bill Pay function. I attempted to try and reach someone at customer support this morning. After waiting 20 minutes, I got someone who talked with...

I noticed late yesterday while watching a YT video from one of my subscribed gardening channels that the names on the comments all began with their "@" name instead of their nicknames. Did YT implement some change that is causing this, or is there an option, maybe a new one, that I need to set...

I have a series of binary files which have a fixed number of bytes per entry. Contained within each entry are five fields that are actually in ASCII. Each of these five fields all start at the same byte offset within each entry and have a fixed number of bytes. I would like to process each...

My DW and I recently purchased new iPhone 13s. Coming from Android smartphones and never owning an Apple product before, it's taken a bit of time to come up to speed on iOS. For the most part, we either have figured it out on our own, or I watch a video or two on YouTube for features and...

Vehicle: 2015 Buick Enclave The hard plastic cover to the front passenger-side seat belt latch had a section break off (not sure how). I've already sent this photo to a local (~20 minutes away) GM dealership and am waiting for a response. But I am curious if anyone knows what the name of this...

For the last three months, I have attempted to log into my Social Security account to check on what my current/future Social Security benefits will be. Each time, I get the request to enter in a code from my cell phone, which I receive and enter, and each time I end up with the following...

I am looking for a portable reader for mainly fiction eBooks. I have gotten tired of reading eBooks on my computer monitor. I would like to be able to sit in a comfortable chair or against some pillows on the bed and read. My smartphone nor my laptop is cutting it. Given my eyesight, I would...

I have a VBA macro that I use to clean up converted documents in Word. One of the first steps in the macro converts all whitespace (space, non-breaking space, tab) to a single space for each occurence (multiple whitespace characters merge down to a single space). I'm using Find/Replace, where...

Backstory: After Thanksgiving, I pulled out of storage several LED C6 light strings that we purchased last year and displayed through December. Not surprisingly, a couple of the strings had lights out. After watching a few YT videos, I used a non-contract voltage checker to isolate the bad...

There are a *lot* of suggestions online for what spices people use and their amounts in making a pumpkin pie or a pumpkin pie spice mix they use with many foods. I will say that I've used a pumpkin spice mix in the past (Trader Joe's) that contained lemon peel and cardamom along with cinnamon...

Let's say my DW and I want to gift our adult child $10K from each of us for 2021, for a total of $20K. Do we each need to write a check for $10K from our joint/trust bank account, or can one of us just write a single check for $20K? Seems like it wouldn't matter, but with the IRS, I am not so...

We're about to replace a few shrubs that were a temporary solution this year. We had limited plant options after the storm of the century here in Central Texas back in February 2021. We're about to plant a couple Abelia and Loropetalum that are in 3-gallon containers. Normally, shrubs of this...

Sorry about the poor quality of the image. I am trying to identify the following pad of paper, which I believe is an old-style engineering paper. For perspective, the vertical red lines are spaced 0.5" apart, and the pad is the standard 8.5"x11" size. There is a good chance this paper isn't...

I have a website I would like to filter (not ER.org) using Greasemonkey. The structure of the html is as follows (simplified for this example): <div class="a1"> {some stuff} </div> <div class="a2"> {some stuff} </div> Based on the occurrence of an URL within "a2" containing a string...

Our friend has a relatively new iPhone that for some reason started blocking images within messages sent from non-iPhone (Android) users. Text-only messages are fine, as is the text within a message that also contains an image. What type of setting/app would be controlling this? ???

When a company decides to switch from one investment firm to another to manage their 401(k) plan and accounts, what happens to the monthly dividend payouts for the bond funds if the transfer occurs before the end of the month? Let's say you have funds in Vanguard's Total Bond fund that are...

My DW's 401(k) is moving to Fidelity, a move being made company-wide. She currently has about 2/3rd in DODIX (Dodge and Cox Income) and 1/3rd in VFIJX (Vanguard GNMA) with the prior investment firm. While the move will initially invest in these assets at their current amounts, I would prefer...