See WP0 and The Wahls Protocol
Seventh Day on the Wahls Protocol
Mrs and I have a combined weight loss of 8 – 10 pounds.
I suspect we are not eating enough, but we are stuffing ourselves and can only eat so much.
We need to eat more meat.
All in all we are feeling the same or better, loosing weight, allegedly getting better nutrition, and definitely not going hungry.
Wahls Protocol Day Zero
Are you sick and tired of being sick and tired? Me too.
Today is Day Zero of the Mrs and me beginning The Wahls Protocol. No idea what I am talking about? Go back and read my post on The Wahls Protocol.
Terry Wahls is within a year in age of my wife and I. Like Jess, in The Nudist War, Terry Wahls has Multiple Sclerosis. No one … and I do mean no one … knows what causes MS. No one knows a cure for it. Treatments exist, but they are fraught with side effects, nasty organ destroying side effects.
Terry Wahls tackled her own MS by researching the vitamins, minerals, amino acids, etc. needed by our mitochondria. Within a year she went from lying on a reclining ‘zero-G’ chair to riding her bicycle. Seriously go back and watch the video.
As I said, Wahls is the same age as the Mrs. Her MS presented itself at about the same time as it did in the Mrs. When I said that no one knows the cause or cure for MS, I should have said that ‘officially’ no one knows the cause or cure. However I believe that Wahls has a clue, and it’s a clue that applies to ALL of us.
Today the Mrs and I went to Sprouts and bought all manner of fresh fruits, veggies, nuts, and seeds. We also went to our nearby JCPenney and purchased a Nutri Bullet. This is not an endorsement of Sprouts, JCPenney, or the Nutri Bullet. Just details. In fact the first Nutri Bullet failed to work right out of the box. A bad omen?
What do I expect to see if this actually works?
Feeling better
Loosing weight
Feeling better
I will update you from time to time with our progress.
From The Nudist War – Day 43
Jess was officially diagnosed with MS ten years ago, not long after she posted for the position at the CDC in Atlanta. She noticed that she had a “floater” in her left eye that didn’t go away. When she saw her Ophthalmologist he diagnosed her with optic neuritis, for which he prescribed a course of oral steroids to reduce the inflammation. “One thing you should know,” he told her, “there is a good chance that you have Multiple Sclerosis. Let me refer you to a Neurologist who specializes in MS treatment. She’s the best one in Atlanta.” After a CT scan, several MRIs and lumbar punctures, the diagnosis was in. “Ms. Munroe, I am so sorry to have to tell you this. The MRI analyses and spinal fluid tests both indicate positive for Multiple Sclerosis.”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KLjgBLwH3Wc?rel=0
Hardcopy, ebook, or audiobook available at:
Amazon
Audible
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and other retailers
Maybe I should put Jess on this diet.
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New World Record In Canada: 431 Plug-In Electric Vehicles In One Place
Green Car Reports
By John Voelcker, Senior Editor 04/19/2014
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Eddy drives a Plug-in EV in The Nudist War
Yet Another Reason Not To Jailbreak
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This is only a problem for jailbroken devices
SpaceX Falcon 9 Reusable
First Test Flight 250m
This is NOT the ‘Grasshopper’ which appears to be visible on the right of the opening scene.
Related posts:
OCTOMORE SCOTTISH BARLEY
http://www.bruichladdich.com/the-whisky/octomore/octomore-06-1-scottish-barley
I just snagged a bottle. The stock photo above is better than anything I could take. Click the photo or the link to go the the official Bruichladdich webpage.
I can tell you that I like it (I had better at almost $200 a bottle). It is not a sweet as the 10 year old OCTOMORE. Although it has twice the peaty/smokey goodness as measured by ppm, it did not strike me as that much smokier. It’s good stuff.
But don’t take my word for it. Watch what the people who make it say about it:
Jim McEwen’s passion for his creation is inspiring.
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Mystery light on Mars
The Register and others are reporting that the Mars Curiosity Rover has photographed a mysterious light on Mars.
UPDATE
Fixed by WordPress for iOS 4.0.2
Released 15 Apr 2015
I’m playing whack-a-mole
I’m playing whack-a-mole
WordPress for iOS
Is just like whack-a-mole
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First: Dates saved based on Time Zone offset, so when ever I edited a post the time regressed. Eventually the date changed and all my links broke.
Then: I learned about scheduling. This was a workaround because I could change the date.
Next: WP released an update that fixed the time offset problem. I got used to future scheduling.
Then: The Preview functionality stopped working. It coincidentally stopped working about the time we all started getting Invalid Certificate warnings.
So: I found a workaround
Now: I can no longer schedule posts for the future. All my posts are Immediate. The scheduling feature is what I use to space out my posts. The option is still there … It just doesn’t work. 😦
UPDATE
Fixed by WordPress for iOS 4.0.2
Released 15 Apr 2015
WORKAROUND
He’ll chase the rats out of Washington
Click on the above image to be directed to campaign headquarters.
Woke up and phoned home
Then sent two pix of the view
Wishing you were here
With a bit of a mind flip, you’re into the time-slip, and nothing can ever be the same.
~ Rocky Horror Picture Show, 1975
Let’s do the Time Warp again
Several posts ago, I told you that I had figured out how to schedule posts into the future. If you look at the posting time for all of the TNW – Day nn chapters, you will see that they are all posted, that is scheduled, for Sunday at 2:00 AM.
Except for TNW – Day 45
When I tried to schedule it for 2 AM, the 2 was grayed out. No matter how hard I tried, it would jump back to 1 or ahead to 3. It was frustrating, but I ended up scheduling it for 1:05 AM and thought nothing more about it.
It just occurred to me a short while ago …
2 AM didn’t exist.
The 2 o’clock hour didn’t exist.
With a bit of a mind flip, you’re into the time-slip, and nothing can ever be the same.
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What would aliens say when told Earthlings shift clocks twice a year to fool themselves into thinking there’s more sunlight.
30 minutes (ish) from the time of this post.
On all of the National Geographic and FOX networks.
Watch it!
So … Tuesday was my 22,000th day here on Earth. 60 years, 2 months, and 23 days.
22,000 Days is immortalized in the Moody Blues song of the same name.
Now that I am living on borrowed time, as it were, I have decided to form a new club. The 22,000+ Club.
John Watkinson is an expert witness and on many occasions has had to deal with patent litigation. Here he describes the application of ideas in the art of invention both historically and currently from Galileo to patent trolls.
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2014/01/15/tales_from_an_expert_witness_prior_art_and_patent_trolls/
I couldn’t have done it without you.
This is the beginning of a serialized novel. I hope you like it. Portions of The Nudist War were previously published as the Day 42 series.
Copyright © 2014 by Christian Bergman, All rights reserved.
All people, places, and events are fictional … except when they aren’t.
The Nudist War
Would real Zombies wear clothes? The answer could go either way. But depending on the circumstances surrounding the Zombification, the answer could very easily be no. If the Zombification occurred to a hospitalized subject after a period of illness, the subject would be wearing at most a hospital gown. Anyone who has worn a hospital gown knows how easily they fall off. If the subject turned at home, they might be wearing little or no clothing. Either way, once an item of clothing fell off … or was ripped off … it is unlikely that it would be replaced. It is even possible that a newly turned Zombie would preferentially rip it’s clothes off because they were foreign and unnatural.
The incidents below really happened. A quick internet search will readily confirm this. Might this not give us an inkling of how the Zombie Apocalypse begins?
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Miami, FL May 26, 2012
A naked man was shot and killed by police after attacking a homeless man; chewing off most of his face, his nose, and one of his eyes. Dubbed the ‘Miami Zombie’ and the ‘Causeway Cannibal’ he sparked a local concern that the Zombie Apocalypse was at hand. This prompted the CDC to release a statement downplaying the reality of any Zombie Apocalypse and any connection to the ‘Miami Cannibal’.
~ CBS News Miami, 5/26/2012
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Delray Beach, FL February 4, 2014
A crazed, naked man with “superhuman strength” was shot and killed by a Palm Beach County Sheriff’s sergeant after attacking several people including a retired NYPD officer, a 16-year-old female, and an 18-year-old male. The 18-year-old male, who was protecting his 16-year-old sister, suffered bite marks on his face and a lacerated ear.
~ The Palm Beach Post, 2/4/2014
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DELRAY BEACH, Fla. (AP) — A 6-foot-3, 250-pound naked man died after being shot by a Palm Beach County Sheriff’s sergeant when he attacked a former New York City police officer, chased a man and his young son and bit a man on the face.
“The 18-year-old thought he was trying to eat his face off,” Bradshaw said.
“The people that he assaulted, starting with the retired NYPD guy, the people that he chased and then the 18-year-old, said this guy had like super human strength,” the sheriff said.”
The incident is reminiscent of a 2012 attack in Miami in which a naked man attacked a homeless man and chewed off much of his face. The man, Rudy Eugene, was shot and killed by a Miami police officer.
The victim in the Miami attack, Ronald Poppo, lost his left eye, his nose and most of the surrounding skin.
The Nudist War begins …
( Patient Zero? )
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This issue has been fixed in 3.9.1
http://ios.wordpress.org/2014/02/12/wordpress-for-ios-3-9-1-released/
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News
The WordPress iOS app 3.9.1 should fix the timestamp problem with updates, which appears to be an issue with local time vs UTC.
I won’t do any more updates to older posts until 3.9.1 comes out. Until then, if you are a new reader, you will need search on ‘Day 42’, ‘Day 43’, etc. to compensate for the broken links.
Once the 3.9.1 app release is out, I plan to repost Day 42, 43, 44 etc. with revisions starting at some current future date. I will leave the original posts in place for historical reference.
I have chosen The Nudist War as the title of the novel with Day 42 still the first chapter. I think that I will title the first post The Nudist War with subsequent posts titled TNW Day 43, TNW Day 43, TNW Day 44, etc.
I am also eagerly awaiting the March(?) release of iOS 7.1, which is anticipated to have better memory management and bug fixes for iPads and iPhone.
Other than troubleshooting the timestamp/date/URL issue on iOS app 3.9 and loosing my sanity, I have been work aggressively on TNW Day 54. As they say … the plot thickens. 🙂
cb
The Nudist War, TNW, Day42, HZV Copyright © 2013 by Christian Bergman, All rights reserved.
Using an iPad or iPhone to maintain you site? Using the iOS app?
http://ios.wordpress.org is the site for you. Check out the blog and the forums.
You will (may?) need to create a separate account for the .org site. At least I did, but then again it recognizes me as ‘cb’ and displays my Gravitar.
This site saved my sanity
cb
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This issue has been fixed in 3.9.1
http://ios.wordpress.org/2014/02/12/wordpress-for-ios-3-9-1-released/
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The latest WordPress iPhone App by Automattic (Version 3.9, January 30, 2014) writes update to the wrong folder.
For example the first entry of Day 42 (The Nudist War) has ALWAYS been located at:
After editing and saving it is now located at:
https://contrafactual.com/2013/07/10/hzv-day-42/
Arrrrrgggghhhh
I discovered this after going back and editing earlier posts.
I thought the post had disappeared until I did a search on Day 42.
Next step … Contacting Automatic 😦
Another Pete Seeger story …
Pete Seeger; Musician, Activist, Humanitarian. 94 Years Young………
May 3, 1919 To January 27, 2014
On some other post, I would love to write a little more about Pete Seeger. For now, I would just like to leave a humorous little story about “one day…”
My own personal story is from a few years back at the Newport Folk Festival. I was standing in the corner of the small stage area watching an ensemble of folk singers. There was Dar Williams, John Gorka, and Ellis Paul. The performers were taking turns singing one of their songs. At one point, Dar Williams, in her introduction of Ellis Paul was talking about how she and some of her neighbors were working on a project to clean up the Hudson River. Suddenly, there was a pause and she pointed almost right at me. She then said “hey, there’s one of my neighbors now.” Obviously…
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Pete Seeger 1919 – 2014
Pete Seeger died peacefully two days ago.
Pete Seeger was a founding father of American Folk Music. His repertoire of songs is amazing. Chances are you know many of them.
Pete Seeger popularized We Shall Overcome and it became the anthem of the American Civil Rights movement.
Pete Seeger talks about the history of We Shall Overcome:
This is the famous Carnegie Hall recording by Pete Seeger.
We Shall Overcome – The Complete Carnegie Hall Collection is available on iTunes, Amazon, and most of the usual places.
Google Pete Seeger ,,,
It wasn’t there before!
Mystery ‘doughnut’ materializes in front of Mars rover
Scientists at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory are puzzled by a mysterious rock that has appeared in front of the Opportunity rover, Curiosity’s never-say-die older sibling.
“Mars keeps throwing new stuff at us!” NASA Mars Exploration Rover lead scientist Steve Squyres told Discovery News.
Rosetta wakes up
Phones home sending single spike
ESA boffins cheer
So back on December 8th I posted my original iPad Air Fail post.
I had suggested reviewing the following thread: https://discussions.apple.com/thread/5532206?tstart=0
It is a long thread
Despite the glowing reviews of the mainstream press and tech community, there are still many frustrated users out there whose iPad Airs have regular Safari crashes, App crashes, and even full reboots.
[I tried to ‘reblog’ but suffered ‘technical difficulties’]
Thank you for sharing this with us. I echo your thoughts. – cb
I am an Apple fanboy, some have even called me an Apple apologist. Be that as it may, I am closely following a thread on the Apple support discussion site that suggests that there are problems in the Apple orchard. To wit, iOS 7 has memory management problems that cause the Safari browser and other apps to crash or the iPhone/iPad to crash and reboot. Both cases leave a ‘LatestCrash‘ and/or ‘LowMemory‘ log in
Setting > General > About > Diagnostics & Usage > Diagnostics & Usage Data
(You must have ‘Automatically Send‘ checked)
Additionally many experienced folks are suggesting that the mere 1GB LowMemoryof RAM found on the iPhone 5s / iPad Air / iPad Mini with Retina Display is woefully inadequate to support the A7 CPU 64-bit architecture.
The Ipad air low memory crash thread on the discussions.apple.com site had 18,652 views and 280 posts at the time of this post.
I have had a handful of crashes on my new iPhone 5s, nothing too worry about, but others appear to have been less lucky. If you are experiencing problems since upgrading to iOS 7 or are having problems with your new iPhone 5s, iPad Air, or iPad Mini with Retina Display you are not alone.
I found this video at http://atomicinsights.com/
Forget everything you thought you knew about nuclear power and watch this video,
LFTR in Five Minutes – Is thorium better than a silver bullet energy solution?
Kinda makes you think, eh?
Kirk Sorensen http://energyfromthorium.com
… per day!
Source: Boy Genius Report
Daily iPhone 5s production now matches Moto X’s entire Q3 sales
Foxconn has 100 production lines, 600 people per line and a total of more than 300,000 workers dedicated solely to building the iPhone 5s — and that’s just at one factory in Zhengzhou, China. How many iPhone 5s handsets can all those people build? According to the report, they’re pumping out a staggering 500,000 iPhone 5s units each day.
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Curiosity Fails to Find Methane in Martian Atmosphere
http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/m/news/?release=2013-285
http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/phoenix/news/phx20100524.html
May 24, 2010
PASADENA, Calif. – NASA’s Phoenix Mars Lander has ended operations after repeated attempts to contact the spacecraft were unsuccessful. A new image transmitted by NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter shows signs of severe ice damage to the lander’s solar panels.
“The Phoenix spacecraft succeeded in its investigations and exceeded its planned lifetime,” said Fuk Li, manager of the Mars Exploration Program at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif. “Although its work is finished, analysis of information from Phoenix’s science activities will continue for some time to come.”
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During its mission, Phoenix confirmed and examined patches of the widespread deposits of underground water ice detected by Odyssey and identified a mineral called calcium carbonate that suggested occasional presence of thawed water. The lander also found soil chemistry with significant implications for life and observed falling snow. The mission’s biggest surprise was the discovery of perchlorate, an oxidizing chemical on Earth that is food for some microbes and potentially toxic for others.
Follow up to ‘Transparent Aluminum’ …
Fast Forward >> more on the Ion Cannon
1986
From: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transparent_aluminum#Transparent_aluminum
[Transparent Aluminum] was notably mentioned in the 1986 film Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home. Panels of ultra-thick acrylic glass were needed to construct water tanks within their ship’s cargo bay for containing two humpback whales and tons of water. However, the Enterprise crew, without money appropriate to the period, found it necessary to barter for the required materials. Chief Engineer Montgomery Scott exchanges the chemical formula for transparent aluminum for several sheets of the material from a manufacturer called Plexicorp. When Dr. Leonard McCoy informs Scott that giving Dr. Nichols the formula is altering the future, the engineer responds, “Why? How do we know he didn’t invent the thing?”
From MOVIECLIPS.com:
2013
MERRIMACK, N.H., Nov. 4, 2013 — GT Advanced Technologies Inc. (Nasdaq:GTAT) announced that it has entered into a multi-year supply agreement with Apple Inc. to provide sapphire material. GT will own and operate ASF® furnaces and related equipment to produce the material at an Apple facility in Arizona where GT expects to employ over 700 people. Apple will provide GT with a prepayment of approximately $578 million. GT will reimburse Apple for the prepayment over five years, starting in 2015.
http://allthingsd.com/20131104/apple-inks-major-sapphire-supply-deal-with-gt-advanced-technologies/
Sapphire is currently used as the substrate for LED manufacture and is used by Apple in the lense covers of various ‘iDevice’ cameras as well as the fingerprint sensor in the iPhone 5s. The Apple – GT Advanced Technologies deal suggests that Apple needs an assured supply of Sapphire for current and future devices. Such future applications could include Sapphire screens and/or wearable products. (http://www.patentlyapple.com/patently-apple/2013/09/apple-invents-a-fusion-process-that-will-add-a-sapphire-laminate-layer-to-iphone-ipad-future-iwatch-cover-glass.html)
From Pocketnow.com:
From GT Advanced Technologies:
Sapphire is second only to diamond in hardness (that is, scratch resistance). The formula for Sapphire is Al2O3.
Sapphire = Transparent Aluminum
See also (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sapphire)
Ye Olde Kid Sister wrote this song thirty years ago when #1 son was born. Last week she put this video together.
Leaving for the wedding in a few hours.
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I wrote this song in October of 1983, just before I met my nephew, Tom, for the first time. And I thought that now was the perfect occasion to get out my old cassette player, make a digital copy of the song and add a few pictures. Congratulations, Tom and Jane! I love you, Nora
Meters, that is. (2,500 ft.)
This is the highest to date.
What you see above is (was) my old phone. Your basic 5+? year old bog standard Samsung flip-phone as issued by Verizon. I have been a Verizon customer since it was GTE back in the ’90s. In fact my first product was a pager, not a phone (but I digress).
Anyway, remember back a few posts ago when I said that YOKS (Ye Olde Kid Sister) got me the first generation iPad for father’s day out of pity because the all time geek did not have an iPhone?
Yesterday #2 son and I got up at 7 AM and drove over to the new Verizon store on the edge of town. I had stopped by the previous evening to confirm that they would have the iPhone 5s in stock. We got into the short line (# 0010) and waited the half hour until they opened at 8 AM. We each got the “Space Gray” 64 GB model. I might have gotten the Champagne Gold model if they’d had it, but as we all later found out, they are in extremely limited supply. Space Gray is fine for me.
We decided to try to get them on release day for fear they would quickly sell out and be unavailable for weeks. It appears we were right. While standing in line I was speaking to the fellow ahead of me and he told me that he had originally gone to a different Verizon store, but the line was already wrapped around the side of the building.
Impressions
Fast, really fast, to quote South Park “hellafast”. At least compared to my gen 1 iPad. But it should be. It has 4x the RAM. The Geekbench overall rating is almost 5x better. I am surprised that the Geekbench number was’t even higher based on pure specs, but maybe Geekbench isn’t optimized for 64 bit CPU. Web surfing is MUCH faster even on LTE. Videos play smoothly on LTE.
The finger print scanner works as advertised. It is very slick.
Although the battery life is probably close to that of my iPad, it feels as if the battery drains a bit faster. It definitely needs to be plugged in overnight.
Assuming that the new iPads are based on the same 64 bit A7 chip, I will absolutely be getting a new iPad or iPad mini later this year. Whereas the iPhone fits in my pocket, the screen is too small to work on all day long (I am still posting this from my olde iPad).
Oh and I finally have a camera again. I used the iPhone to take the pictures of my old phone. By all accounts it is a good camera. Standby for cat pictures …
iPhone lovers: you can hate me now 🙂
Apple haters: you can continue to hate me. BTW the iPhone 5s appears to be the fastest mobile device of any kind as of today (Source: AnandTech)
PS
“And I’d have given anything
To have my own PacMan game at home.
I used to have to get a ride down to the arcade;
Now I’ve got it on my phone.”
Brad Paisley, Welcome To The Future
As promised in 2001, I now have 2001 A Space Odyssey on my phone. I also downloaded PacMan. 🙂
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Nobody every accused me of not being passionate. Just ask the Mrs.
My previous two posts, Quiet and Introvert, seem to have struck a nerve …
and then it occurred to me … wait a minute … didn’t I read that Introverts are likely to be writers?
Hey Maggie,
Check this out …
Not only did the Obama family introduce Sunny the puppy to her adoring country, but the White House also came out against breed-specific legislation — regulations and laws that restrict ownership of dogs by breed, pit bulls being the most common target. …
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/08/20/obama-breed-specific-legislation_n_3785911.html
This makes me very sad.
From change.org
My big brother, Ethan Saylor, was a 26 year old man with Down Syndrome who died in the custody of three off-duty Frederick County Deputy Sheriffs on January 12th, 2013 over the price of a movie ticket. Our family is hurt and left with many unanswered questions. We’re calling for an independent investigation into Ethan’s death.
Ethan’s crime? He wouldn’t leave a movie theater because he wanted to see Zero Dark Thirty one more time, but didn’t pay for the second showing. When he refused to get out of the seat for the next show police attempted to pull him out of his chair and he resisted. Ethan’s aide asked the police to wait and that Ethan would calm down shortly if they left him alone. She specifically told them that touching him would just escalate the situation. They didn’t listen.
One deputy pulled Ethan from his seat and began struggling with him. Then two more off-duty deputies joined in, wrestling Ethan and trying to handcuff him. Then they “took him down,” falling in a heap with Ethan at the bottom. Witnesses say they could hear him crying and calling for our mom. Then he stopped breathing and went into cardiac arrest. In just a few moments he was dead – eventually ruled a homicide by asphyxiation.
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