We like to "spookify" our favorite foods. So enter Spooky Guac. [Sidenote: I did come across a Halloween guac recipe called "Guacamoldy", but even that was too much for me to be able to call it that and still eat it.] Isn't guacamole the perfect party food and the perfect color for a Halloween spread? And the kids think it's totally awesome to have a spider and her web in the guacamole bowl.
We simply used 2 olives to make a quick little edible spider--a little black spider ring (dollar store) would also work great too! For the web, we just piped some sour cream into circles and dragged a toothpick (or chopstick) from the center to the outside edges to get the spider web effect. You could use any guacamole, but here's the link to our favorite guac recipe.
It's fun, cute, and festive and doesn't take too much effort--so add it to your Halloween party menu/celebrations!


The University of California, Davis has circulated a China travel warning to some of its students, advising them not to use messaging apps like WhatsApp or WeChat or make "unfavourable political statements or postings on social media" while there.
It was delivered on Monday in an email sent by Gary Leonard, the University of California Office of the President's director of liability and property programmes, to the universities that fall under his office's governance, and was forwarded to people who may be travelling on behalf of UC Davis, a spokeswoman for UC Davis said. Screenshots of the advice have been seen by the South China Morning Post.
The email came days after the US State Department updated its travel advisory to China following last month's high-profile detentions of three Canadian citizens, warning US nationals of "arbitrary enforcement of local laws" and exit bans.
Two electrical and computer engineering graduate students confirmed they had received the email but declined to comment on the travel warning.
The email reads: "While the use of What'sApp [sic], WeChat and like messaging apps is legal in China, we have seen in the latest espionage charge of a US citizen in Russia where the use of What'sApp [sic] has been cited in his espionage charges.
"Our concern here is the possibility China could use this condition similarly against Western travellers to levy charges or as an excuse to deny departure. We recommend not using these messaging apps at this time."
It said the travel advice had been based on information from private risk management firm WorldAware. Leonard did not respond to a request for comment.
While the university did not deny the email had been sent, the detailed list of China-specific warnings were not on its travel news and updates page, though the State Department's travel advisory was posted on Tuesday.
University spokeswoman Melissa Lutz Blouin said links to official US travel and health advisories were posted "as a matter of routine for places where our faculty, staff and students travel".
Cognitive science student Chaodan Luo, who is from Sichuan province in China, confirmed that she too had received the email on Monday. Luo said that her roommate, who is also an international student from China, had received it as well.
The China travel warning email had apparently not been sent to all students.
Caitlin Perkey, who studies international relations at the university, said she had not heard about the travel advisory for China. "If they are giving warnings … then it could be because the US State Department is also putting out warnings," she said.
US citizens currently prevented from leaving China include the estranged son and daughter of Liu Changming, a former Chinese bank executive wanted by the government for financial crimes. Their mother and Liu's former wife, US citizen Sandra Han, has been placed in secret detention since June.
Meanwhile, the US has detained several Chinese citizens accused of espionage, as US-China relations sink to a historic low amid the trade war and the arrest of Huawei Technologies executive Sabrina Meng Wanzhou in December, highlighting issues over technology and security.
Other global institutions have also issued China travel warnings in recent months.
After Meng's arrest, US technology giant Cisco sent an internal email advising US-based staff to cut "non-essential" travel to China, but the company quickly backtracked, saying it was "sent in error to some employees".
In October, Swiss bank UBS withdrew a warning to staff against travel to China after one of its employees was prevented from flying home to Singapore from Beijing by authorities.
Chinese researchers working in sensitive hi-tech sectors have also been told not to take any unnecessary trips to the United States after it detained several Chinese nationals on espionage charges in recent weeks.
But Ryan Mitchell, an expert in Chinese and international law at the Chinese University of Hong Kong, said most US travellers in China were "unlikely" to encounter genuine danger, though arbitrary detention was a problem.
"The current tensions over the Meng Wanzhou case have resulted in high-profile detentions of prominent Canadians working in China, but it would be a major escalation to start detaining average students or others," Mitchell said.
"On the other hand, arbitrary detention is a real and persisting problem in China, and it is true that anyone who does end up targeted on vague 'security'-related charges will likely not have easy or immediate access to a lawyer or embassy staff."
Mitchell added that some of the advice in the university's travel advisory, such as not taking unauthorised photos of government facilities, were "simply common sense".
"But again, there is no sign that Chinese authorities will initiate mass detentions of US citizens on these or other grounds," he said.


Doctors in Slovenia began a 24-hour strike on Thursday demanding a 40 percent wage hike.
The medical FIDES union has called for a gradual increase in doctors' salaries to a level that would be triple the eurozone country's average net salary — currently around 1,000 euros ($1,090).
Health Minister Milojka Kolar Celarc, however, rejected the protest as "blackmail", arguing that plans for negotiations were already underway.
Slovenia, a nation of two million, has been struggling to recover from a deep financial crisis, during which it narrowly avoided a bailout in 2013.


Walkstool Comfort comes as four different models with sitting heights 45, 55, 65 and 75 cm (18, 22, 26 and 30 in). The smallest model features a large and comfortable seat size, being increased on higher models.
Walkstool Comfort 65 is made in Sweden and has a light weight construction with telescopic legs in aluminium. By not extending the telescopic legs, you will be able to use Walkstool in a lower sitting height as well. Walkstool Comfort offers big rubber feet and an ergonomically shaped seat of mesh material, making it possible to sit comfortably for extensive periods of time. All Comfort models come with a practical bag to for instance carry over your shoulder.


For well over half a century Tamron has been recognised as a leading innovator in cutting-edge optical design, and acclaimed for its mastery of the underlying mechanical and electronic technologies that make today's amazing lenses possible. Developing practical, compact, easy-to-use lightweight zoom lenses with incredible zoom ranges, apertures and close focusing ability, that also deliver world-class imaging performance, is not simply a matter of refining existing ideas — it entails creative thinking at the highest level.
Here is a definitive list of the design concepts used in today's state-of-the-art Tamron lenses.
XR (Extra Refractive Index) glass can bend light rays at steeper angles, thereby decreasing the physical length of the lens while enhancing imaging performance by minimising optical aberrations. With its superior light-bending power, XR glass makes it possible to design a short-barrel lens with the same light-gathering ability (aperture value) as a long-barrel lens – even with a smaller lens diameter. By using this principle Tamron has been able to shorten the length of the entire optical system and produce lighter, more compact lenses of the same speed, and also to provide greater zoom ranges in lenses that are much more convenient to carry and hand-hold.
XR glass is costlier than conventional glass but it yields enhanced optical power distribution, making the innovative XR lens designs possible.
Tamron uses several hybrid aspherical lens elements in its lenses bearing the Aspherical designation. The benefits are two-fold: first, their non-spherical shapes virtually eliminate spherical aberration and image distortion. Second, as one hybrid aspherical lens element can take the place of multiple elements without compromising performance, they allow the lens to be much more compact.
As a result, these innovative optics have played a crucial role in delivering uniformly high image quality across all apertures and focal lengths of extraordinarily compact ultra-zoom lenses.
Chromatic aberration occurs when a lens element refracts different wavelengths of a ray of light – its rainbow colours – at very slightly different angles. This results in the 'colour fringing' that reduces the sharpness of an image. LD elements are made from special glass materials with extremely low dispersion indices (i.e. the refraction of a ray of light into rainbow colours is extremely narrow). Thus they effectively compensate for chromatic aberration at the centre of the field (on axis), a particular problem at long focal lengths (the telephoto end of the zoom range), and for lateral chromatic aberration (toward the edges of the field) that often occurs at short (wideangle) focal lengths.
AD glass is a special type of optical glass that is used to achieve more precise control of chromatic aberrations, thereby enhancing overall imaging performance. Glass of this type provides an abnormally large partial dispersion ratio (amount of diffraction) for light of specific wavelength ranges (colours) within the visible spectrum. By combining AD glass having these special characteristics with elements made of normal glass having different dispersion characteristics, it is possible to control the dispersion factors of a specific wavelength.
This enhanced level of control results much lower levels of on-axis (central) chromatic aberration for telephoto lenses (or zooms used at telephoto settings) and a significant reduction of lateral (peripheral) chromatic aberration for wide-angle lenses (or zooms used at wideangle settings).
Like LD glass, AD glass material is costly but provides clear, vivid image quality.
Extra Low Dispersion lens elements are made from a special high-grade glass that has dispersive properties (i.e. where refraction causes the dispersion of white light into spectral hues) even lower than standard LD lenses, in fact being similar to those of fluorite. In combination with LD elements, these make for an optimal optical design that delivers superb resolution with advanced correction of axial chromatic and magnification aberrations – major inhibitors of image quality.
The result is a lens that delivers sharp contrast and better descriptive performance throughout the entire zoom range.
The use of HID glass elements in a lens minimises on-axis and lateral chromatic aberrations that are the greatest hindrances to achieving high image quality. HID glass has allowed Tamron to produce complex lenses such as long-range zooms that are conveniently compact and lightweight while delivering outstanding performance.
This new coating technique developed by Tamron deploys a nano-structured* layer with dimensions smaller than the wavelengths of visible rays of light. Called eBAND (extended Bandwidth & ANgular-Dependency), its ultra-low refractive index, combined with the sophisticated multiple-layer coatings underneath, yields significant anti-reflection properties, absolutely minimising flare and ghosting to deliver sharp, crisp images.
Tamron uses advanced multi-coating techniques to suppress reflections and light dispersion on lens element surfaces that result in reduced light transmission and may, under adverse conditions, cause flare and ghost images that reduce contrast and can diminish image quality. The BBAR multiple-layer coating technique also helps to provide the best possible colour balance for vibrant and accurate colour rendition. Tamron has developed an improved proprietary version of BBAR multi-coating that successfully increases light transmission in both longer and shorter wavelengths, and has applied it to all the latest Tamron lenses.
Tamron's unique VC mechanism uses a proprietary actuator and algorithms to deliver an extremely stable viewfinder image with excellent tracking. The mechanism employs a tri-axial system in which three driving coils move internal optical components within the VC lens electromagnetically. The VC lens elements are held in place only by contact with three ball bearings – which in the latest Tamron VC lenses are ceramic – achieving smooth movement with minimal friction. The simplicity of this mechanical structure is also one of the secrets of Tamron's compact lens sizes.
Tamron's Integrated Focus Cam is a precision mechanical component that optimises the co-ordinated movement of the Internal Focusing (IF) system with the Multiple Cam Zoom Mechanism. This ingenious mechanism ensures accurate and seamless positioning of all the internal elements within the lens and coordinates them with the external zoom and focus controls.
An exclusive Tamron innovation, the Piezo Drive (PZD) is an advanced ultrasonic autofocus (AF) motor based on the latest piezoelectric technology – the standing wave principle. High-frequency voltage turns a ceramic piezoelectric element with a swiveling motion, causing the metal tip at the rotor's contact point to rotate elliptically, thereby turning the rotor to focus the lens swiftly, silently, and with great precision.
Standing wave ultrasonic motors like the one used in Tamron's innovative PZD have a number of advantages. They're smaller and lighter and also provide faster and quieter operation than DC motors for improved AF performance. Compared with their predecessors, their actuator system allows far greater flexibility in lens design, reducing the overall size and weight of the lens.
Another original Tamron mechanical engineering concept is the zoom-lock mechanism, which prevents the weight of the lens barrel from extending the lens when carried on the camera pointing downward. This eliminates the danger of accidentally knocking the lens while walking around and enhances responsiveness in the field. Simply zoom the lens out to its widest focal length and use the sliding zoom-lock switch to lock the barrel in place.
Switching quickly between autofocus (AF) and manual focus (MF) is a great asset, especially in sports and nature photography. Tamron's ingenious system switches between the two focus modes by simply sliding the focus ring back or forth. Tamron lenses provide smooth, precise manual focusing with wide, well-textured focusing rings.
The manufacture of compact, high quality, high-power zoom lenses became a reality only when Tamron perfected a lens chassis that permitted stable, smooth extension of the lens barrel. The Multiple Cam Zoom Mechanism is an original Tamron design that incorporates several precision cams cut into a single cylindrical surface by high-tech automated machinery. This key component enables zoom lens barrels to be extended and retracted effortlessly, achieving compact dimensions at the wide-angle settings while holding precise extension at telephoto settings.
To ensure the highest levels of performance and durability without adding additional weight, Tamron high-power zoom lenses make extensive use of engineering plastic materials in many critical mechanical components of the lens. Tamron has developed advanced proprietary methods for manufacturing these advanced polycarbonate materials to a very high degree of precision, and exhaustive testing has confirmed their long-lasting properties and dimensional stability under the toughest conditions. Indeed, polycarbonate of this calibre is the material of choice whenever Tamron produces high-precision components that must withstand rigorous use.


Free Printable 50 US States List. Free Printable 50 US States List, a great learning resource for student. The 50 US States List is a basic list of the 50 United States of America in alphabetical order that you can use to help your children learn the 50 States.
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Mike Wallace has passed today. I grew up watching the guy on 60 minutes even before I was old enough to like the news I liked that show. He will be missed.
One of the last good anchors. He will definitely be missed.
He was a good guy, will be missed surely.


Sometimes I get lazy with my self-care routines and practices. I always start out a new program with all kinds of good intentions and motivation. And, after a while, even if it is going well, and I am seeing results, I tend to start to slack off and take vacations from my new habit... until I realize I have given it up completely and need to start again.
This has happened with food plans, exercise programs, evening skin care practices... and even with my supplements. I am not sure why this happens but have been doing some self-evaluation and make an effort to turn it around.
I have come up with a list of ways to keep myself on right track... to keep my motivation to practice my new habits more consisitently. Perhaps they will be helpful to you, too.
1. Keep the WHY in mind. Set SPECIFIC and TIME-RELATED goals.
I find I do much better if I have a particular why or goal in mind. When I am training for a running event, I know that I need to do my training runs as specified in order to actually be able to run a successful race.
Last Summer I wanted to rock a particular dress at my nephew's wedding so I worked hard on my food and exercise plan to make that happen. I wanted to look good in the pictures that would be taken throughout the day and that vanity kept me on track. Who cares if your WHY is shallow or vain. It is YOUR why and whatever it is, it is valid.
This is a big one for me and in the past I have fallen into the trap of setting a goal that is just not attainable. It can be very crippling. I think now I probably don't reach high enough but I really do not like to fail. So, I make sure I am setting goals that are challenging but do-able.
You may be able to lose 10 pounds in a month, but you probably cannot do it in a week!
3. Make an ACTION PLAN and outline the PROCESS in detail.
plan in specific detail, including your shopping list for equipment/supplies, your schedule and anything you need to do to make these steps happen. Do you need a babysitter? Do you need to set up a phone app with reminders? The more details the better.
4. Make sure your plan fits your LIFESTYE and your TIMETABLE.
If you like to sleep in on Saturday morning, and your new running group gets together at 7 a.m. how likely are you to stay with it? If your husband or partner wants to have dinner with you every evening, you are not likely going to want to attend a 6 p.m. Weight Watchers meeting. You have to be happy and comfortable with your plan or you will not follow it. If your family is unhappy, you will not follow it. If you are tired and miserable, you will not follow it. I am not saying you cannot make changes, but I doubt that overhauling your life is going to work for very long.
This is key for me, whether a food journal or a training diary. I like to keep notes and see my progress. And I pretty it up with colored pens and stickers! I like the process of writing down what I am doing and seeing my efforts in writing.
6. REVIEW, EVALUATE, and EVOLVE.
Celebrate successes. Forgive failures. Change the plan if your progress is way more or way less than you expect. It is important to keep on top of things and I think that these reviews help with commitment and interest and ultimately with motivation.
Motivation and commitment are very personal and will change from person to person, and even throughout our lives.
What motivates you to keep going with a new program or a new habit?
I think you nailed it with finding what works for YOU. I'm always evolving and modifying my goals as well as my plans for reaching them.
I'm always afraid if I stop, then it's back to square zero and I have to start all over again! That's really my motivation.
These are great tips - thank you! Sometimes it's hard to maintain my motivation if I'm not training for something so that's why I typically set goal races for myself.
I'm usually fairly good with a routine, but if I get derailed (like when I'm sick, for example), it's hard to get back on the train. I'm currently recovering from a pretty bad cold and I haven't done any strength training in two weeks. I think it might take me a minute to get back to where I was before my goal race!
Great tips! I think its important to be flexible with your goals as things can change along the way!
I am definitely a creature of habit and having time related goals are a big help for me.
Keeping goals realistic is huge and for me using the blog is very helpful. I like throwing it out there- helps keep me on track.
Great ways to stay motivated!
for me it is ALL ALL ALL about expecting failure and simply seeing that as a bump in the road I WILL get over.


Somewhere atop this mass of majestic mountains lies a piece of my heart in my tiny rural hometown. Thirty-seven years of my life story is scattered all about this place.
My children were born and raised there. One I carried on my hip to collect my high school diploma. A diploma I had to fight to get.
A marriage gone wrong. Adversity. Sorrows and loss and joy found. Laughter and tears.
I met and married the man of my dreams in this place.
History made. More than half my life pieced together much like a quilt.
My family is still there.
We often travel back round bends and turns, up and around. It's a magnificent view as you traverse up and back down.
BUT, heres the thing. I. Am. Terrified. Of. Heights. I DO NOT like beautiful views perched from atop!
As we begin to ascend, I break out in a cold sweat, my hands are clammy, I'm gripping the seat, with toes dug into the floorboard of the car. Though we are creeping along, all the way I'm yelling at my man to slow down. In his very calming voice he tells me if we go any slower sweetheart we'll come to a screeching halt.
We break through the trees as we approach the top, the terrain is flat again, and I begin to relax. Sucking in that sweet mountain scent. Going on about my visit, enjoying family, familiarity, friends, and reminiscing.
Not one whit of a thought about the descent.
Going back down to flat ground, well let's just say it's not pretty. Worse than even going up. Unreasonable fears, screeching and near screaming, I practice Lamaze breathing(something you never forget even after 33 years), meditation, prayer, and flat out yelling at my man.
Then it's over, we are back in the valley. On flat ground again. I transform from unreasonable, crazy woman to my calm and quiet self again.
Ah…If only I could stay on the mountain top. No fears, no sweat, no panic. No yelling at my man.
But my life is at the bottom.
At the bottom of the mountain, in the every day-ness of my life, is where most of my days will be lived out spiritually.
Oh I've had a mountaintop experience with God. Though it was the worst time, the hardest days, the greatest fears, physically speaking, it was by far the BEST time in my life. Daily provision so evident there was no way to miss it. The Presence of God so close to me, I could feel His breath on my face.
I have to confess this descent was just as ugly as coming off the mountain from my hometown. I didn't want to give up that kind of experience, so close to God, where I could believe anything.
But we can't stay on the mountaintop all the time.
I floundered a bit, back down in the valley. Not sure how I should live. Which way He wanted me to go. Until He showed me this is the place where I am to tell of His Glory. Share my story. Tell of what He did for me up on that mountain.
Find Him in the every day-ness of my life.
Never forgetting my mountaintop experience.
"When you were on the mountaintop you could believe anything, but when you were faced with the facts of the valley?
After every time of exaltation, we are brought down with a sudden rush into things as they really are, where it is neither beautiful, poetic, nor thrilling.
It is here in the valley, in the everyday-ness of our lives where we are called to live out our faith and live for His glory.


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The Abandoned is a prequel novella to the previous two books in the series.
Amanda Stevens is an incredibly productive author, who managed to write over fifty novels, starting from a very early age. She was born in Arkansas, in the foothills of the Ozarks. The area she was born in already suggested what could have been of her future: it was a place renowned for its superstition and folklore, the two things that fascinates Stevens the most. She starts reading as a little child, influenced in the choices by the stories she listens to while at school, and by those told to her by her father. Literature has always been "everything" to her, ever since she read The Diamond in the Window by Jane Langton. As she said during an interview: "I wanted to be a writer since childhood. One of my earliest influences was […] The Diamond in the Window. I'd been reading The Little House on the Prairie series and some Nancy Drew, but this story gave me my first taste of fantasy with a Gothic edge". It was a paranormal mystery, filled with riddles and transcendentalism, and it gave a start to the author's great passion for gothic novels. She discovered Mary Stewart, Victoria Holt and Phyllis A. Whitney. After that, the time had come to grow and discover more about the seemingly endless world of fiction: fantasy and horror, with Michael Moorcock and Stephen King.
In her twenties, willing to pursue an English major, she went through a long series of day jobs. She studied during the night, and that time of the day already being fascinating for itself, got to become the most useful and productive. While at the University of Houston, and more precisely during her junior year, she and her fellow students were challenged by their English professor: whoever managed to get published by the end of the semester, would get an A. She wrote and sold her first novel, Killing Moon, to a New York publishing house. Not only did she get the A, but she started to work as a professional writer ever since: as mentioned above, she published more than fifty novels, and The graveyard Queen Series, is now being considered for a television production. NBC already bought the rights to the series, but as the author's site states, there are "no further developments on the TV project", so far.
What is more compelling about this still young and flourishing author, is her passion for symbolism and imagery, for the aesthetic point of view, combined with an intense research. In numerous interviews, she refers to the importance given to the covers of her books specifically, and generally to that of every fantasy book: it can be as important as to change, from Stevens' point of view, the success of a book. Also, she mentions the appeal given to her by folk magic, starting from the ghost stories her father used to tell her, and ending with poltergeist-like experiences witnessed by her own friends. She cares and researches a lot whenever writing, which allows her to create a rich and intriguing series of symbols that have so much to say, that they need a specific section in her site. When asked what would she be, if she were not writing books, she answers that she would love to work with the FBI. She would not like to have a glamorous job, like a field agent or a profiler: she would take care of the research. The same way she has been collecting information for her books, she would try and find interesting, puzzling, obscure clues even in real life.
At some point, though, a young woman's body is found in an old graveyard she was asked to restore. Detective Devlin, a mysterious, haunted hero, is now on the case, and Amelia tries her best to help him. He is unfortunately surrounded by those ghosts Amelia has been trying to keep out of our world for her entire life. She wants to help him, but she must keep them away.
This ghostly story leads to the second book of the series, The Kingdom. Amelia has now left Charleston, the city-scenario of The Restorer, and has gotten to Asher Falls, California. She was hired to restore an old cemetery, and she he is trying her best to forget about Devlin and all the rules she was forced to infringe because of him. But as soon as she gets there, she can feel maybe she was called there for another reason. Many mysteries start to invade the heroine's world, beginning with that of the graveyard, strangely placed at the bottom of a lake. What is the purpose of such a cemetery? Why would anyone think of that? The answer seems to fade away just as fast as more mysteries arise. The town citizens, in fact, immediately prove to be dodgy, secretive, not to mention the fact that someone breaks into her place, poisons her recently adopted dog and menaces her in several other ways. The town of Asher Falls itself looks like it is in complete decline. And, what is most important, a ghost Amelia is trying to ignore, keeps haunting her, telling her to go away from that place. Amelia is somehow forced to stay there by the feelings she gets from the place, and also because of the appearance of a new character, Thane Asher, the heir to the powerful family after whom the town is named.
This second book manages to continue and evolve the previous settings, and it intrigues the reader with many kind of new fascinations, enriching an already fantastic and mysterious world.


text: A beloved daughter, granddaughter, sister, niece, cousin and friend, Maggie Kristine Miller, has gone home to our Heavenly Father, at the age of 15, on November 11, 2020. Born in St. Louis on December 3, 2004 to Wade and Megan (Hudnall) Miller, Maggie grew up in Troy, where she attended First Baptist Christian Academy Elementary School, Troy Middle School, and later Troy Buchanan High School. Maggie was an athlete of unmatched portions. Her love of any competition made her a fierce competitor in soccer, track, and basketball but more importantly she was a kind and compassionate teammate. She was funny, outgoing, a skillful artist, a Lego architect, animal lover and best friend to everyone she met. Maggie enjoyed Sunday church with her grandmother and always looked forward to her Sunday morning treat of Mike & Ike's, Diet Mountain Dew and a big hug from Mona Turner. She had also become active in the Elsberry UMC/FCC Youth Group. A Child of God, Maggie was a symbol of power, beauty and grace. She was loved dearly by her friends, family and pets. We will always remember her infectious smile, sparkling blue eyes and caring personality. Her presence in our lives will be sorely missed. Through Maggie's passing, her spirit lives as she was an organ donor. Maggie's love for life and belief in God's miracles left a legacy for others to cherish. When you think of Maggie, celebrate the good memories you have of her. Remember that life is fragile and short, and should be lived to the fullest. Maggie was preceded in death by her maternal grandfather, Gary Hudnall and precious aunt, Amy (Hudnall) Silotto. She leaves behind her parents, Megan and Wade Miller; brother, Grant and sister, Claire; grandparents: Kenny and Ann Miller of Fulton and Diane (Tapley) Hudnall of Troy. She also leaves behind aunt, Amanda (Bradley) Todd, aunt Jacki Hudnall, cousins: Alissa, Addison, Reed, Amy Grace and Eva. Many other loved ones and special friends. A visitation will be held from 2:00 – 8:00 p.m., Sunday, November 15, 2020 at Carter Ricks Funeral Homes in Elsberry, Missouri . The funeral will be held at 11:00 a.m. Monday, November 16, 2020 at Carter Ricks Funeral Home. Memorials may be made to Feed 'Em, Teach 'Em, Love 'Em at Elsberry United Methodist Church.

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Light is one of the key parameters to obtain healthy and strong plants, promote growth and also to control and favor certain quantity attributes such as color, size and taste. But also in order for growers to keep a steady supply for resellers and end consumers.
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Health care, especially in the U.S., is a complicated thing, to say the least. So when I discovered some invaluable health-care information — stuff I was completely unaware of — while doing research on depression (a common symptom of MS), I had to share it here.
I was reading the book "Living With Depression: Why Biology and Biography Matter Along the Path to Healing," by Deborah Serani, which traces the author's personal struggle with depression, as a patient and as a licensed psychotherapist. It's a fantastic resource for anyone who's looking to better understand depression or who's in the midst of battling the disease. But it's also helpful for anyone who's dealing with one of the many other chronic illnesses. This is partly because depression often comes along with other diseases, and partly because the book contains an entire chapter on health-care resources, facts, and tips.
I was unaware of most of this information, and I figured I'm probably not the only one. With Deborah's permission, I've included the following excerpts from her book in hopes that it's helpful to you or someone you know.
Another way to obtain free brand-name medication is to contact the pharmaceutical company directly.
If you are not eligible for free medication and are paying for brand-name prescriptions, there are some avenues that can help defray costs. You can ask pharmaceutical companies if they have special discount programs or rebates for your brand-name medication. For example, I take a hypertension medication, which erupted to a $75 copayment under my new health insurance. Astonished, I inquired about this high expense by calling the pharmaceutical company and managed to get a discount card for $25 off each monthly refill for a year.
You can look into discount prescription cards, which are made available by organizations independent from insurance companies. For example, Drug Card America, UNA Rx Card, and state Rx cards can be accessed online for immediate coverage; once you fill in your name and address, your card is ready. Click, print, and begin using it at cooperating pharmacies. My local pharmacies, Target and CVS, both participate — which makes me happy and pocket-change wealthy. Money saved is money earned.
Another avenue to obtain affordable medication is to go the generic route. As mentioned earlier, generic medications have similar compounds as brand-name, but cost significantly less. Though active ingredients in generics are considered to be bioequivalents of their brand-name counterparts, there can be variations in the inactive compounds (fillers and binders). Generics are not identical medications to brand-name medications. So it's crucial to discuss with your prescribing health-care professional if a switch from brand-name to generic is a feasible idea.
Professionally speaking, I've seen many patients swap with ease from brand-name to generic, while others didn't manage so well. Where as little or no side effects were seen with brand-name antidepressants, the taking of generic equivalents for some of my patients resulted in many new complaints — headaches, stomachaches, and worst of all, insufficient reduction of depressive symptoms. A swift return to brand-name medication brought back the needed equilibrium and well-being. I think we'd all agree that feeling better trumps saving money.
Report complaints regarding your health care.
Before you lodge any complaints or queries, know your health-care coverage. This means reading through paperwork or accessing information online to learn exactly what you are entitled to receive. If you're in a depressed state or in a compromised mood, have someone explain the details of your health plan to you.
Keep a folder on all your health-care issues.
Create a main folder — be it old school with paper and pen, or geek chic with a computer file — that includes all your medical records. Medication, treatments, reports, and so on should be included in this folder for easy access.
Start a journal record of your contacts.
Whenever you make an inquiry regarding your health care, record every contact you have and with whom you speak. This keeps a running tab of the calls you've made, emails you've sent, and the information you've received.
When speaking to anyone, get her or his full name.
Ask the customer representative to spell his or her name for you — first and last. Get a direct telephone number if you can. Sometimes you might not get the rep's last name or direct line, but it sets the stage with whomever you're speaking that you are a skilled consumer.
Get the customer representative's title.
"What is your job title? And what exactly are your job responsibilities?" Requesting this information tells the customer representative that you wish to know exactly who he or she is, and grounds the conversation in a professional and polite tone.
Ask why your claim was denied.
Sometimes health care denials or late processing of claims are clerical errors. This is usually an easy fix. Other times, coverage may be delayed or denied due to "medical necessity." In these instances, request a formal review and follow the procedures therein.
Access outside agencies to lodge complaints or arbitrate on your behalf.
If everything described above fails to work, this is the time to seek appeals outside of your healthcare program. DO NOT WAIT. Again, if you're feeling overwhelmed by this process, reach out to a family member or friend to help you navigate this course of action.
If you have the dubious honor of living in the United States, you can read further on things your insurance carrier doesn't want you to know at insurance.com. It's a bewildering account of the totemic power of money and the callousness of private enterprise. I will summarize five key issues reported by Dr. Linda Peeno, former medical director of a managed-care company and healthcare whistle-blower.
Health carriers don't want you to know how to access your benefits.
Have you ever called to inquire about a claim or coverage only to get different answers along the way? That's because the health insurers create a maze in which they hope you get frustrated. Feeling helpless, they hope you'll give up and not pursue issues further. Denying you care keeps money in their accounts. And money in their accounts balloons their profits.
It is more cost-efficient to let you die than to treat you for a serious condition. Health-care companies can get into legal trouble for denying you proper care. The ugly truth is that they don't deny care but they deny payment of care. This deceptive process sends your claim into "pending" purgatory. Remember, denying you payment boosts their profits.
Health-care companies find "technical" denials to delay paying you money. Waiting for a reimbursement, but it never comes in the mail? Have you called to inquire as to why you haven't been paid only to be told that there is "missing" or "wrong" information on the claim? This is done so intentionally to delay your payment — and thousands of others — so the health-care company's money can earn interest in their accounts.
Health-care lingo is used as a tool to deny coverage.
The terms "medical necessity," "urgent," "emergency," and "evidence-based" are used by health-care companies to make denials stick. Often, denials are crafted by using these terms in such a way that your present symptoms or illness won't qualify for coverage.
Health-care companies use ghost networks.
Have you called a health-care professional "in your plan" only to discover that this specialist is not a participating provider? Have you found yourself feeling disgusted from this experience, deciding not to go further? Consider yourself haunted by a ghost network. A ghost network, also called a phantom network, is a collective list of health professionals and specialists that your insurer insists are contracted providers for your medical or mental-health needs. However, these identified individuals are not members of the network.
Remember, the goal of most insurance carriers is to take your money and limit your coverage. However, don't let these ugly truths get you down. Your defeat signals profits for health care carriers — and you can't let them win. Instead, arm yourself with knowledge, resources, and tools to get what you deserve.
Experience is a great teacher, and man, do I have experience with health-care insurance companies. Professionally, I've been part of a ghost network and have seen patients experience delayed claims and denial of services. I've been told I filled out claims wrong when I didn't, and have seen health care lingo deem suicidal behavior not an emergency condition. Personally, I've had to fight to get services, medication, and treatment many times over. Instead of getting discouraged, these negative experiences spur me on. The following are tactics I use and encourage you to do the same.
Fill out every section of a claim form.
I've learned over the years, personally and professionally, to fill out every inch of a claim form. Though it's not always necessary to do so, it ensures that "nothing is left out" — a classic delay tactic health organizations use.
Consider sending claims via registered or certified mail.
To ensure that your claims are "received," it may be worth the extra money to send them through the post with a signature guarantee. This postal strategy officially documents that your claim has been delivered. It also begins the time clock as your insurance carrier has a deadline to return your claim. Sending your claims via registered or certified mail makes it harder for them to say there is no record of your claim or it wasn't received.
I make copies of every claim I submit personally and professionally. If an insurance carrier says that there's missing information or it's filled out incorrectly, I pull out my copy and challenge the so-called error. Then, I kindly inform them that I will be contacting the state attorney and insurance departments if the claim is not cleared for payment immediately. This is when having the claim representative's name and the date, time, and content of the discussion makes for good use. No one wants to be the responsible named party in a lodged complaint.
Know your state attorney general.
Every U.S. state attorney general has a health-care bureau or department where you can file a grievance and have him or her work on your behalf to fight insurance companies. Be prepared by having your state attorney general's name and contact information when you call your health-care carrier. Inform the customer representative that you'll be seeking the help of the state attorney general — and follow through if your situation is not remedied.
Know your state insurance department contact information. Every U.S. state also has an insurance department where you can seek guidance and lodge a formal complaint. You should also have this information at your fingertips when you query your insurance carrier. Remember, follow through and file your complaint. Don't make hollow threats.


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Avatar Assistants Help Busy Physical Therapists
Written by David Heitz on June 14, 2013
A digital avatar is helping patients keep up with their exercise routines and stay healthy at the San Mateo Medical Center.
It's not human, but it can take your vitals, offer medical advice, and guide you through physical therapy exercises. It even has six bedside manners to choose from.
Meet Sense.ly, a digital platform currently in beta testing. It combines voice recognition technology, motion detection, and wireless home monitoring devices to keep an eye on patients when a doctor isn't around.
Adam Odessky, chief executive officer of San Francisco-based Sense.ly, told Healthline that the company pitches their product as a way to help healthcare professionals become more efficient in handling day-to-day patients. "The idea is to have more patients per day and reduce admissions," Odessky said. "It also helps patients comply much better and adhere to prescribed instructions."
Sense.ly spun off the product after it was initially developed by French telecommunications company Orange.
Also known as an avatar, or a digital presence with a human likeness, Sense.ly so far is only being tested at the San Mateo Medical Center in California as well as an addiction clinic in the Golden State.
"It's kind of a ubiquitous medical assistant," said Odessky, who plans to launch the avatar to a wider audience by the end of the summer. "It's a caretaker that's with you at all times."
Paul Carlisle, director of rehabilitation at the San Mateo hospital, said the avatar is getting mixed reviews from patients. "Some are kind of having fun with it, but others are not as enthusiastic," he told Healthline.
So far, the hospital is only using the avatar during physical therapy sessions for knee replacement patients. "You certainly get a big buzz in the gym when you turn it on," Carlisle said. "Everybody stares at it. The avatar is very realistic, and it's fun to see the different responses from patients."
The avatar is hooked up to an Internet-equipped television at the San Mateo hospital, but it can also be operated from a smart phone. The next step, Carlisle said, is to have it monitor patients from home.
Odessky said the device could prove useful for people with diabetes, for example. "You can buy a glucometer (which measures blood sugar) for $20 at Walgreen's, plug it into a smart phone with a USB cable, and the avatar downloads the data and sends it to Sense.ly," he said. "It can then ask questions about diabetes, such as how the patient is eating."
For the San Mateo Medical Center's purposes, the avatar measures range of motion in the joint when knee replacement patients exercise. It also asks them about their pain levels. "The question is, how can we make sure the data is precise?" Carlisle asked. "There have been some challenges with that."
The avatar is intended to ease the burden on an overextended healthcare system, especially when it comes to monitoring patients with chronic ailments. People are waiting much longer to see a doctor than they used to, Odessky said, and millions of uninsured patients continue to enter the system.
It adds up to what he calls a "mentality of avoidance" among patients. "They are so frustrated about not seeing a doctor they let their symptoms exacerbate and it costs much more money," Odessky said.
Carlisle stressed that the avatar will not become a replacement for physical therapists. "You still have to have that judgment, but we're always looking for ways to augment what they're doing or give them the ability to see more patients," he said. "We are so pressured to see patients with less and less time, we have to start thinking about advanced technology."
The San Mateo Medical Center is a public hospital. The majority of its patients are Spanish-speaking and low-income, Carlisle said. "In public health, we're under-resourced and overwhelmed with patients. We're thinking of other ways to get to this big mass."
Francisco Morales de Leon, a patient at the San Mateo hospital, told Healthline he appreciates the avatar because he mainly speaks Spanish, and some of the live physical therapists can't communicate with him as well as the avatar does. "I love it. The avatar helps me understand better," Morales de Leon said. "I am practicing the exercises and feeling better in my legs."
The avatar speaks several languages and dialects.
Carlisle said he enjoys the enthusiasm of patients like Morales de Leon. "Some say [the avatar] is creepy, but for me, it's interesting. I think in some ways it motivates patients to get back on the exercise machine."
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The Interconnectedness
This post was first published on January 30, 2013. I've had occasion to think a lot about these ideas in recent weeks, which prompted me to share this one again.
We are at an interesting crossroads, having made the long march up from the scarcity of our hunter-gatherer days, up through the genius of agriculture and animal husbandry (and the miracle of settled human society they made possible); up through the game-changing Industrial Revolution which birthed to the middle class and brought a tenfold increase in wealth to the capitalist countries — though often at the expense of people and the planet. Now we're in the grips of another great transformative moment in human history, which I call The Interconnectedness Revolution. It's marked by our growing awareness of the interconnectedness of all life, and our growing recognition that every man is our brother and this planet is our home. It's the culmination of man's 11,000 year journey from scarcity to abundance, and a high-water mark in the evolution of the human race.
The Zen Master Bernie Glassman spoke poignantly about this idea of interconnectedness in a recent interview on Charlie Rose, where he appeared with the actor Jeff Bridges to promote their new book, The Dude and The Zen Master. There, he asked that we imagine that our left hand, right hand and right leg are part of the same body but do not know it. He then asks us to imagine that this right leg is injured and that, instead of helping, the left hand and right hand say, "I'm not gonna help, it's not my problem," and, in the end, no one helps, and finally the body dies. For most of human history, we have been like the left hand and right hand that don't know they belong to the same body as the leg. Now, we are waking up to the idea that everyone, and everything, on this planet is part of the same body, and that we will perish or continue as one.
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The PR Battle For Equality
The battle for Marriage Equality is almost won. Later this year, The Supreme Court will decide a case that will settle the marriage equality issue for all 50 states. The question they will answer is whether The 14th Amendment Equal Protection Clause requires marriage equality, as surely it does. For those of you who are not Constitutional nerds, The 14th Amendment provides, among other things, that "No State shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor shall any State deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws" (emphasis mine).
The equal protection clause was one of the Reconstruction Amendments. Passed on July 9, 1868, it was meant to lay the legal foundation for full equality for African-Americans, including former slaves who, at the time of its passage, were just three years removed from the institution of slavery. It's worth noting that prior to the passage of The 13th Amendment, even free blacks were at risk of being enslaved, as Steve McQueen's luminescent film 12 Years A Slave so painfully illustrated. The 14th Amendment was meant to ensure that those newly freed slaves would be granted full equality under the law. It would take a century for the descendants of former slaves to gain full equality under the law (again, emphasis mine).
While The 14th Amendment was passed in the context of slavery and racial justice, it's language, like most constitutional language, is broad. This is not an accident. The Founding Fathers, too many of whom were slaveholders, ensconced, in The Declaration of Independence and in The Constitution, language that spoke of aspirations that they themselves did not attain. The Declaration of Independence, for example, holds "these truths self-evident that all men are created equal." All men. These are the words they chose though they themselves owed their wealth, or a portion of it, to slavery, though they themselves had households and plantations that were run on slave labor, on the blood and sweet and tears of people who were not compensated for their labor and who, furthermore, suffered untold indignities to their bodies and their spirits, including the indignity of brutal and premature death.
So too does The 14th Amendment use inclusive language. It provides for equal protection of the laws for all persons within the jurisdiction of any of the United States. And so when The Supreme Court extends marriage equality to all couples, regardless of sex, a move that this New Yorker article predicts will happen this June, it will be acting in a manner that is consistent with the framers original intent and with the intent of those who drafted and passed into law The 14th Amendment equal protection clause that will make it legally possible.
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Edible Estates
Friday's news that climate change is worse than we thought, has lit the fire under my feet, and gotten me to think anew about what it will take for us to make a sustainable world. With carbon dioxide in the environment now at levels not seen in 3 million years, a development that the scientist Maureen E. Raymo, of Columbia University's Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, said "feels like the inevitable march toward disaster." Of course, nothing is inevitable. We always have options, though at current rates of environmental degradation our options are rapidly narrowing, which is why it's high time we all up our game — and by we, I mean me, because I've been twiddling my thumbs and making do with half-measures when nothing short of a fundamental shift in the way I live will do.
My commitment to myself, then, is to figure out a way to do better. It's tied up with the project of trying to live better (by which I mean richer, deeper, and more profoundly fulfilled). I talk big, mind you. I have friends who uprooted their whole lives, sold their home and hit the road in an RV three weeks ago in order to work on farms around the country on their way to setting down more sustainable roots, perhaps in a retreat center cum sustainable community that they're dreaming up. Compared to what they're doing, my little inquiring is child's play. But I am earnest. I want to continue a project I first started dabbling in twenty-four years ago when I explored vegetarianism, a ten year journey that brought me full circle back to being a (more enlightened form of) carnivore, and sunk bricks into my toilet tank to reduce the waste of excessive water flow. One avenue of exploration I'm excited about is Edible Estates, the brainchild of Los Angeles artist Fritz Haeg. Haeg's idea is simple: turn lawns into edible gardens. A similar project, L.A. Green Grounds, founded by South Central Los Angeles-based "guerilla gardner" Ron Finley, who recently gave a rousing talk at TED — more about him soon — does for abandoned lots and the underused patches of land between sidewalks and streets what Haeg is doing for the venerable American lawn.
Tags: Edible Estates, Food, Fritz Haeg, Graham Hill, Mark Bittman, Ron Finley, The Life, You Should Know About, YSKA
Transcendent G(Race)
The images above offer one more reason (as if one were needed) to love Carine Roitfeld. From the helm of French Vogue, from which she departed in 2010, Roitfeld was irreverent, original, one of a kind. Now she helms her own CR Fashion Book, where she's in rare form yet again, working her beautiful, conceptual magic in ways that, frankly, boggle my mind.
Roitfeld is up to some seriously intriguing, philosophical stuff. She's talking fashion, mind you, but somehow she manages to upend our cultural assumptions and cause us to see anew.
Roitfeld reminds me that fashion is cultural iconography. It's uniform, armor, away of engaging with, and breaking through the barriers of the world. It's something the disenfranchised have always known. It's why African-American women of my mother and grandmother and great grandmother's generations dressed to the nines, never forgoing their slip or gloves or pantyhose. Dressing to the nines, in the normal course of business if you were middle or upper middle class, and on special occasions if you were working class or poor, was a way to stake a claim on their right to dignity and respect in a world too often blind to the fact of their basic humanity. Sadly, the inability to "see" the non-white among us as human persists, a point Anna Holmes drove home in a piece in The New Yorker about the extreme displeasure expressed by a few too many Hunger Games fans to the discovery that Thrash and Rue were (gasp, wait for it) black.
It's in this context that I consider the images above, which appeared in two different spreads in Roitfeld's CR. The first, of New York Giants wide receiver Ramses Barden and New York City Ballet dancer Faye Arthur is soaked in the history and iconography of black masculinity and white femininity as it plays itself out in the White American consciousness and, by extension, in the Black American consciousness as well. This image contains the image of Emmett Till, the 14 year old African-American child who was lynched in 1955 Mississippi for looking at a white woman. And it turns it on its head, rendering the strong, black, male body what it has always been, an object of beauty, intentionality and grace.
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The Pope, The State Of The Union
And The Fire This Time
Yesterday was an eventful day. The Pope resigned, the President gave the first State of the Union address of his second term, and, here in California, the manhunt for former LAPD Police Officer Christopher Dorner appears to have ended in conflagration and Dorner's death, presumably at Dorner's own hand.
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Murraylands Drive January 2011
Sunday, Jan 09, 2011 at 13:40
Member - Stephen L (Clare SA)
Rising Water Levels in the Murraylands
The words on everyone lips, both here on the forum and on all news services right around Australia was the unseasonal rainfall that was devastating many parts of Mainland Australia. The Murray / Darling basin had for years been gripped in severe drought and now in a few short weeks of constant rainfall, the complete turn of the circle with swollen and flooded waterways pouring millions of litres of water into Australia's largest river system. The next guess was how much water would find its way south and into the waters of the Southern Ocean through the Murray Mouth at the Coorong.
Hearing many contradicting reports, there was only one way to find and that was to take a trip to the Murraylands of South Australia and witness first hand just how much water was making its way down the Murray River. We chose the Murraylands for one main reason, and that was that nearly all of this section of the Murray River was below Lock 1 and would show the greatest contrast in river flows.
Between Lock 1 and Lock 2, even in times of drought, the pool levels were maintained at a reasonable stable pool level so that water can still be pumped from the Murray River at Morgan and sent hundreds of kilometres away to the Iron Triangle towns via what is known locally as the Morgan / Whyalla Pipeline.
Making the most of the predicted 29° perfect low summer daytime temperatures, we were on the road by 7am and headed down through the Barossa Valley. A quick stop at Nuriootpa and we wished that we has brought warmer clothing, as it was still only 13° at 8am with a cool wind adding to the cool conditions. My next intended stop was only a short distance away at the quaint town of Springton – to get digital pictures of a very important local old River Red Gum known as the Herbig Tree and as luck was with us, the tree was flowering.
Herbig River Red Gum in Flower.
Between 1855 and 1860, Johann Friedrich Herbig made this hollow River Red Gum his home. In 1858 he married and this tree then was the birthplace for the first two of their 16 children. After the birth of the second child in 1860, he built a small pine and pug dwelling 400 yards from this tree. Across the road from the tree is a hand made trough, also from a very large Red Gum branch, which he used for watering his stock and the well where the water came from.
Back on the road, we made good time and were soon at Mannum, where we went straight to the Mary Anne Reserve. This was the perfect spot for our morning smoko and while we were there, the big tourist boat "Murray River Expeditions" came in after taking a bus load of tourists on a cruise on the Murray River. The river levels was well up at the wharf and was now only about 30 cm below the top planks, so with the expected peak to still be some time off, the wharf in Mary Anne Reserve will surely be under water soon. As Mannum is quite close to Adelaide, the main street was full of tourists and there were very few spare places to park the car. After a good look around the town that kindled many fond childhood memories when we would spend weeks staying here as kids, it was time to cross over to the other side of the Murray River on the first of our ferry rides and start to head slowly north following the Murray River and its wetlands. Crossing over on the ferry, it was very clear to see that the fast flowing Murray River was having an effect on the ferry and the force of the current was making the ferry go around a metre down stream before straightening up as the cables tensioned near the other side. Once over the eastern side of the River, we took the scenic road to Bow Hill which for most of the drive hugged the now flooding swamps and finally gaining high ground just before Bow Hill. From here we went to Purnong where we again crossed over the River on the ferry and then took the dirt road to Walker Flat.
Arriving at lunch time, we found a small shelter and seat and had lunch by the River at Walker Flat. After lunch, we visited the small store and purchased a couple of ice creams and had them on the banks of the River before again crossing over to the eastern side of the Murray on yet another ferry crossing. We made a number of stops along the way, stopping at the marked lookouts that give great views from the towering clip tops overlooking the Murray and the wetlands before arriving at Swan Reach. From here we again crossed back over to the western side of the River on our fourth and final ferry crossing for the day. The dirt back road from here to Blanchetown as in very good condition with many flowering Eucalypts along the may. Our first stop in Blanchetown was Lock 1.
Flow Indicator at Lock 1 Blanchetown
The volume of water passing through here was quite evident and the flow rate dial gave a good indication of how much water was entering South Australia everyday from Victoria. The anticipated peek inflow when we did this drive was estimated to peak at 90,000 Megalitres per day around late January to early February 2011. It has since been reported on the radio that due to higher than expected evaporation rates at Lake Victoria, the authorities have now down graded the peak inflow rates to 80,000 Megalitres per day, again in either late January to early February. Leaving Blanchetown, we crossed over the Sturt Highway and took the dirt road to Morgan.
Arriving at Morgan, we intended to head up to Waikerie, but decided against that and instead spent the next couple of hours walking to the old wharf and then just sitting by the River, watching the many power boats and water skiers on the River and the swiftly flower Murray River passing by. It was now 5.30pm and time to head home via Burra. We will monitor the flow of the Murray and will post any major changes to what can be described as the best inflows into the Murray / Darling River system for decades.
Herbig Tree at Springton
Herbig Well and Trough
The Herbig Tree at Springton
Mannum Town Wharf
Mary Ann Reserve at Mannum
Murray River Expeditions Tourist Boat at Mannum
Paddle Steamer PS Marion at Mannum
Scenic Drive road between Mannum and Bow Hill
There were lots of Native Birds along the backwaters
Canoe Tree
Lookout Near Bow Hill
The Murray River and the flooding backwater
Lunch time by the Murray River at Walker Flat
The force of the current can clearly be seen at Walker Flat
Murray River Ferry crossing at Walker Flat
Shacks at Walker Flat
Big Bend on the Murray River
Big Bend Lookout
The Water is getting closer
Lock 1 Blanchtown
Old stone shed at Lock 1
Flood Level Sign on Old Stone Shed
Lock 1 Flood Levels
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Pelicans were in great numbers at Lock 1
Good Dirt road between Blanchetown and Morgan
Old Wharf at Morgan
Old Historic Wharf at Morgan
Rising water levels at Morgan
Flood depth Indicator at Morgan
The 1956 Flood Level was near the top of the Marker
Flood or No Flood, people will always have fun on the Murray
Lower River Murray Flag
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What you call this expression? I leave it to you!! Oh, one more thing, the model is my brother!
'What is this?' people ask me when they see it for the first time. 'Time Machine' i answer.
I have used parts from at least 3 broken time-pieces for this. Almost all parts are used here. Other stuff on board include Gel Pen Tips, Spring, LED Light, parts of syringe etc. After a long service as paper weight for me, this was recently disassembled. So now Time Machine only exists in this photograph.
After spending the whole day doing nothing (except watching stupid movies or sleeping), i decided to doodle again. Here is my today's doodle. Original Darkman is here..
Yesterday i was thinking of putting the sketch-a-day program into action and for that downloaded some pics from google for reference. Since the only drawing instruments i have now are the Gel Pens, decided to make a quick doodle of the pic (pencil sketches take too long anyway and i have neither the time nor the patience).
If there is one resemblance between me and Van Gogh, that will be the habit of doing a lot of self portraits (though am not as successful in my efforts as he was). So here is my latest attempt. This is more of a doodle than a sketch. I was just browsing through some of the photos and then i saw a peculiar one (like this). So i just took a paper and doodled it; A quick work with pen.


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First, I bought the car used about 3 months ago and it didn't come with maintenance records. It has 212K miles. After a few weeks, it started losing a little coolant. There was a small leak on the plastic part of the radiator that someone had tried to patch with epoxy and the patch wasn't holding. This past Saturday, that trickle became a massive leak.
I bought a new radiator and upper/lower hoses and installed them Monday. Leak at the radiator is fixed. I've done this before, so I knew to expect some trapped air in the cooling system to take a little time to get out to the recovery tank. I've added a little coolant 2-3 times because of this. there is a sort of gurgling/hissing sound coming from the coolant recovery tank but I can't tell for sure if there is a leak there.
Before the repair, (and after replacing the ECTS), the temperature gauge was consistently at 1/4 any time that the engine was warmed up. Now, the gauge goes up to 1/2 and sometimes a little over 1/2.
I forgot (silly me!) to replace the thermostat while I had the hoses off. Maybe I should have done that - and maybe I will need to? I'll have to drain and replace most of the coolant to replace the thermostat, so I need to know whether this is a necessary repair.
Mostly, I want to be sure that the car isn't running too hot.
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First and foremost pressure test the cooling system. If you don't you're just pi$$ing into the wind. Once you affirm the system can hold pressure buy a new pressure cap for the coolant tank. Cheap insurance. Properly bleed the cooling system to be sure all air is out.
Get it all done at once- that way you aren't constantly draining and refilling the Coolant system multiple times.
Replacing the cap seems like a smart idea. Don't have tool/know-how to test the pressure. when the car gets really hot (>7/8) some coolant gets past the recovery tank cap.
I replaced the ECTS 2 days after I got the car ~3 months ago. the one I bought was defective - ugh - so I bought another one. Temp gauge normalized at ~1/4 and the DTC for the ECTS cleared.
When hot, the upper & lower hoses get hot.
Plenty of heat from the heater core; tested that with temp lever all the way up and fan on high. We're talking blast furnace here, with good air flow.
As soon as I figure out where the water pump is, exactly, I'll have a look for any leakage. ECTS is fine, replaced 23 months ago. the DTC for it cleared as soon as I had a good ECTC in there (the first one I put in was defective, so I went back to get another one. Since then, the temp gauge has consistently read ~1/4 until just now. Hoses get hot, cabin heat is performing well. Fan is not turning with gauge ~7/8!! Checking the fan now to see if it will spin with 12V applied directly to it.
This appears to be a major break through in time travel!
I'm just glad they bring Saturn back in the future.
Kaspar7, with questions of coolant temps and why the temperature needle swings more than it has after replacing the coolant sensors, there may be a simpler way to have an overall perspective - using a reader capable of displaying coolant temps. If you don't own one and are confused as many about which one to buy, you might consider a free app (option to upgrade for a few dollars) for cellphone use and a bluetooth adapter plugged into the OBD II port. A popular app is Torque and a generic bluetooth adapter from ebay. Members already using them can recommend bluetooth models. Or buy a plug-in reader. Observing actual temperatures may give you more insight to correlate temps to every day driving. And these OBD II tools can decode the check engine light.
What I need right now is the #$%^&^ bolt that holds the fan shroud to the radiator. I was taking the fan out to replace the motor. That went fine, but... Friggin' time warps! I took the bolt out and put it in a magnetic parts tray with the other bolts and nuts I removed. So naturally, it has vanished because it's 5:00 and I don't have much good light left. I need to know what thread size and length that bolt is. Probably find one at Home Depot - if I know what to get. It's about 5/8" long, has a 10mm head. Don't know any more than that.
Me, too. But why is there no dealership? I need parts.
it's running really hot now; went clear up to the red zone and the Hi-Temp light came on. Fan isn't coming on. Bought a new fan motor and replaced that. But now I can't find that ONE bolt that holds the fan shroud to the radiator. I put it in a magnetic parts tray when I took it out, to prevent losing it!! That bolt was missing when I got the car. Found a replacement in my collection of old nuts 'n' bolts. But didn't think to get a spare before I put it in the car. Now it's gone. Moved the car far enough (downhill in neutral, not cranked) to look all under it. No luck.
I'm old school too but kept up with changes to EFI systems. My L300 and $150 service manuals (bought back in '05) allows me to stay abreast of changes while educating my me on the nuances. There's no stopping off progress with cars.
If you know the bolt size is 10mm, can you remove any similar bolt to see if it fits the threaded mounting hole? Some careful experimenting can help determine which metric nut or bolt is needed before going to Home Depot for replacements.
All I knew was that the head of the bolt fit a 10mm socket. Didn't know the bolt diameter, thread size or length. BUT, I located one of the blind-nut clips that was left over from the radiator job (the radiator came with 4 and I only needed 3). Took that nut to Home Depot and found a bolt that fit it. Turned out to be a 6mmx1.0, 20mm long. didn't have the fancy head with the built-in washer, so I slipped a properly sized stainless steel washer down the bolt shaft and threaded it in. It fits like a glove. tomorrow I get to determine whether the fan will turn on when it should - and get a temperature reading just in case. Good thing I fixed the heater core and the misfire in the Jetta on Saturday, so I have something to drive to the parts stores!
Properly bleed the cooling system to be sure all air is out.
How do I bleed the cooling system to be sure all air is out?
For me it was fill, drive, cool down, repeat. Took 3 or 4 times and now it's good.
While you are in there anyway, check the line that dumps into the back of the reservoir for a solid flow stream. It can be done with the line on the reservoir, but I've found that taking it off it probably just as easy and you can see the flow better. Just disconnect, dump it in the (open) reservoir, and then check flow after starting the car. Best done with the car cool.
The single cammers don't generate a lot of heat, so if it's heating up quickly the line could be suspect.
The Water Pump is located on the Passenger Side of the Engine- about midway.
If you take off the Passenger Wheel, and the Splash Guard immediately behind the Wheel, you will see the Main Camshaft Pulley. Look just up and North East of the Camshaft Pulley and you will see the Water Pump Pulley.


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Antitrust: Commission confirms unannounced inspections in the farmed Atlantic salmon sector
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12/02/2019 - The European Commission has approved, under the EU Merger Regulation, the proposed acquisition of joint control over Virgin Atlantic by Air France-KLM, Delta and Virgin Group. The Commission concluded the transaction would raise no competition concerns in the European Economic Area.
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11/02/2019 - The European Commission has approved, under the EU Merger Regulation, the merger between Amcor and Bemis. Both companies manufacture flexible packaging products worldwide. The approval is conditional on the divestment of Bemis' medical packaging business in Europe.
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Washington, DC: In the first of what is anticipated to be multiple Congressional votes to address the federal prohibition and criminalization of marijuana, the House Financial Services Committee voted to advance The SAFE Banking Act, HR 1595, 45-15.
Currently, thousands of state-licensed and regulated businesses lack access to the banking industry and are unable to accept credit cards, deposit revenues, or write checks to meet payroll or pay taxes because federal law discourages financial institutions from engaging in such partnerships.
"Though it is just one component of broader reforms that are needed to, that are related to marijuana," said Committee Chair Maxine Waters. "I have long fought for criminal justice reform, and deeply understand the need to fully address the historic racial and social inequities related to the criminalization of marijuana.
The ongoing federal prohibition forces this newly emerging billion-dollar industry operates largely on a cash-only basis — an environment that makes businesses more susceptible to theft and more difficult to audit. It also places the safety and welfare of these business' customers at risk, as they must carry significant amounts of cash on their persons in order to make legal purchases at retail facilities.
"This is a positive step forward to address an untenable tension between state-legal cannabis marketplaces and federal marijuana prohibition," said NORML Political Director Justin Strekal. "No industry can operate safely, transparently, or effectively without access to banks or other financial institutions. Ultimately, the banking issue is just one symptom of the toxic and cruel policy of federal marijuana criminalization. In order to truly bring the vibrant marijuana economy out of the shadows, actions need to be taken by Congress to end federal prohibition and the discrimination the comes with this failed policy."
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Q: Delete locked file in Form Templates I am unable to delete a locked file because it says it is checked out by a user. We verified the only user that has access does NOT have this open or checked out. This is in the 'Form Templates' Library that cannot be deleted from the browser.
I also looked into the Library Setting'Manage files which have no checked in version', but nothing shows up there. Any ideas on how to delete this file and/or library? Powershell or another workaround?

A: Check for file checked out status and release lock if any
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May We Be Better Together: BETTER LATE THAN NEVER!
Drumroll, please, for the moment we've all been waiting for!!
Check out this glamshot!! My body may have been exhausted, but my heart and soul were filled with more joy than I could have ever imagined!
David and I both thought we were having a girl by the end of my pregnancy...but as I've said during my whole pregnancy, all I pray for is a healthy baby. And we are blessed...with a healthy baby boy!
He was 6lbs 9.3 oz and 19 inches.
My team was unbelievable!! Along with my amazing husband/coach, my nurse (a midwife!!) and doctor coached me through a challenging, but out of body experience...I was able to deliver with no drugs (minus the med to protect Sol from the GBS I was carrying)!!
It's a short post, but I hate that I've neglected to update...I will try to update again soon because I have so much I want to share!!
39 weeks....or could Baby A come sooner???