The Arrow #175-interim

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Hello everyone.

Greetings from Dallas.

You are not going to believe what has just happened to me.

I was putting the finishing touches on the Odds and Ends section below, converting it into a list instead of each article being it’s own little paragraph, and the entire 7,000 plus words I had written above it disappeared. All except the ad below. I’ve spent about two hours searching for the missing words and have sent an email to the folks who run this platform. This happened once before early on while I was on ConvertKit, and the folks there were able to retrieve it for me. I’m hoping these guys can too. If not, I’m not sure what I’m going to do.

When I went to the Help section, I was informed that everything is always saved. And that every time the program syncs—which it does constantly—that that version is saved. And all I have to do it click on the three little dots in the upper right to see all the previously saved versions. Problem is, there aren’t three little dots in the upper right to click on.

I hate it when tech companies do this. And all of them do. Even Google, and God knows they’ve got enough money to stay on top of it. Tech companies make changes to their platforms—usually for the better—all the time, but they never go back and change their FAQs or instructional videos relating to what was changed.

I’m beginning to think I’m snake bit with this platform, although it has many, many advantages for a newsletter writer that Substack doesn’t have. I would hate to abandon it, but I would hate even more the threat constantly hanging over my head that hours of work could vanish without a trace.

Sorry about all this. I will keep you posted. And I’m hoping the admin folks will help me recover the missing 7,000 words, so I can get them off to you in short order. If the Universe smiles on us, you’ll get a double delivery of The Arrow this week.

MD has been on me for not writing The Arrow in Word and then copying it onto this platform. That’s what she does with her OutlanderMD series on Substack. It’s a real pain to do that, but after this horrible experience I may just do that. The platform is supposed to sync, though. But I’m reminded of what my old flight instructor used to say:

“If the pilot screws up, the pilot dies. If the tower screws up, the pilot dies.”

Substitute writer for pilot and platform for tower, and that’s my situation now.

MD and I are leaving early tomorrow morning for Fayetteville, Arkansas for our grandson’s college graduation. I’m sure the folks at the platform will choose that time to get back with me, so I’ll have to deal with them on the road using my iPhone as a hotspot. Great fun.

At least enjoy the Odds and Ends and the Video of the Week. And take a look at the new advertiser below.

And most of all, thanks for hanging in there through all my trials and tribulations.

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Odds and Ends

• From teenage cyber thug to Europe’s most wanted.

• The nanny state governmental regulation changes to the famous toy, Mr. Potato Head.

• The man who killed Google search. And Yahoo search, too.

• Interesting thread. A hundred years ago author H. P. Lovecraft explains why civilization needs true aristocrats.

• Re the bird flu: There is evidence of wild bird-to-cow, cow-to-cow, cow-to-poultry, and one case of cow-to-human transmission. There is no evidence of human-to-human transmission.

• Keeping the body's multiple clocks in sync could be the secret to slowing aging. Mice studies, but interesting nonetheless.

• An Orangutan is the first wild animal to be found treating injury with medicinal plant.

• How we got red meat wrong. Early American diets weren’t as plant-based as we think.

• A deep and troubling dive into the opioid crisis.

• I would like to add a few of these to my library, but they are a bit out of my price range I fear.

• Like Rip van Winkle awakening, Norway ends its holiday from history.

• Ever hear of the Tides Foundation? I hadn’t either until I read this: The People Setting America on Fire.

• A new, non-invasive, high-resolution, imaging technique to view the heart tested on patients could improve the evaluation of cardiac conditions and undiagnosed chest pain.

• Success is found in the minutiae.

• Is there anything they won’t stoop to? Big Pharma knowingly sold HIV-infected treatment to the UK’s National Health Service.

• Swarms of miniature robots simultaneously clean up microplastics and microbes from water. I’m sure these folks aren’t the only ones looking for a promising solution to the microplastic problem. Someone will figure it out.

• What food product came out in the year of your birth (assuming you were born in 1940 or later)? All of them are junk. Real food was available for millennia before any of us were born.

• Stunning article on the vastness of the industrial-censorship complex. Difficult to believe how widespread and insidious it is. What’s even more stunning is how the widespread censoring has been censored.

• Tap water in the US pretty much sucks. Enter your Zip Code into this site and discover how bad your own tap water is.

• Given today’s technology, 5-day weather forecasts are 90 percent accurate, but 10-day forecasts are only 50 percent accurate. “Any attempt to predict the weather more than 10 days out…is pretty much useless.” Since weather is but one small aspect of climate, how can we pretend to predict the climate years in the future?

Video of the Week

After all the talk you heard (or would have heard and I hope will hear very soon) about protein above and what it can do for you in terms of muscle protein synthesis, I figured this would be a good place to stick this video. This guy is amazing, and I’m sure he worked on this a long time before being able to do it. Gives us all hope.

Time for the poll, so you can grade my performance this week.

That’s about it for this week. Keep in good cheer, and I’ll be back next Thursday.

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