Now initially you might think you don't need or even want to know about
butyrate (ˈbjuːtɪˌreɪt) noun,
any salt or ester of butyric acid, containing the monovalent group C3H7COO- or ion C3H7COO–, and when you then bumped into this, having first found out it is in butter, you might well panic:
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Clear plastic screwdriver handles are usually made from cellulose acetate butyrate, a material developed in the 1930s.
— Roy Berendsohn, Popular Mechanics, "Why Do My Old Plastic Screwdriver Handles Stink?," 8 Oct. 2017
But then you would realize that lately it has had a great rise in reputation and helps maintain your biodome and aids in the production of key neurotransmitters that help both our gut and our brains to work. Apparently we make it when bacteria in our bellies ferment high fibre carbohydrates, but it is also, and here is the punchline, found in butter! The highest food source for it. I am relieved, and think I will just butter up everything!
At least these verbose scientist think so:
The neuropharmacology of butyrate: The bread and butter of the microbiota-gut-brain axis?
Apologies to attentive readers, but Skinny Pete has been replaced by the charismatic Mickey Finn, as Skinny Pete was previously engaged.
Oh and with my Mac if I press command + click the links open in a new tab, which is much less irritating.
your story is flowing now Xty. i think everybody should read it now from the start.
i just found this today; it is a few days old. this article is an excellent summary of
the situation in the USA. it also ends on a hopeful note. hope this gets passed around.
http://charleshughsmith.blogspot.com/2014/06/the-purchase-of-our-republic-guest-essay.html
test. if this works, i hope you got your ears on 44.
no live bands are this good anymore.
Thanks Woodpecker, that tune was on my mind just the other day. Still having trouble with videos and now have no sound at all. Nice work on the novel Xty.
and I had some fun here back in the day. http://www.cabbagekey.com/home/
Going to be a long day. Madison to Minocqua. Load some stuff. Minocqua to Eau Claire. Unload some stuff. Eau Claire to Madison. Total of about 9 hours road time, with heavy lifting in between. Might be some time in there somewhere to take a leak.
I might need this version for later.
From the top:
that was a good article about the purchase of the republic, but I wish I could have proof-read it for him! Horrifying the 1.3 billion to 7 billion rise in price from the 2008 to 2012 election. And he is spot on, politicians are at least 50% rent-seeking and it is ugly, unproductive, in fact counter-productive, and it will increase until it hits 100% of their time. And their donors are also rent-seeking, so it is a cluster-seek of mammoth proportions.
Chicago looks like Mordor from Illinois.
Pete: is it the internet connection that is a problem where you are now? Or is your computer misbehaving? Cabbage Key looks very cool and one of the things that hubby and I really want to do one day is bring a sailboat down the inland waterways. At least I do, he would like to race down the Atlantic probably, but compromise will get us in a boat to at least the Bahamas or it is a nice pipe dream if it all comes to naught not knots. But the back side of Florida and the Keys look super cool, if possibly full of poisonous snakes or something, because you don’t hear much of people flocking there for holidays and I don’t know why.
EO, why are you about to go on this excruciating road trip? I suspect children or close relatives are involved.
I apologize for inflicting this song on you, but whenever we drive and are going to stop at Tim Hortons we can’t help but sing 18 wheels and a dozen doughnuts
Is Tim Hortons a strictly Canadian thing or has it infected the States?
i lost a post last night also – i received a message that suggested that my post was spam. it happened on the 2nd edit attempt. sometimes things just don’t want to post right.
sorry for my over sized Chicago photo. i ran over your side bar text. oops. let’s see if this makes up for it. this is Chicago from the west, and from the air of course. i have seen this view a few times as Chicago is the nearest major airport.
are you able to resize photos Xty? if you can fix my post above, please do.
there are a few Tim Hortons in and around New York City, and that’s it for the USA Xty.
Dryocopus pileatus says:
June 7, 2014 at 21:51 (Edit)
a view of Chicago from Indiana…
article on net neutrality, and on “astroturfing” which is fake grass roots organizing…
“Notably, Broadband for America’s most recent tax filing shows that it retained the DCI Group, an infamous lobbying firm that specializes in creating fake citizen groups on behalf of corporate campaigns.”
http://www.vice.com/read/cables-companies-are-astroturfing-fake-consumer-support-to-end-net-neutrality
heard this song yesterday. still in my head this morning.
Good morning all. Internet still iffy, back later when I get home.
Popcorn Diary–6/9/14
Sprouts! No reseeding needed this year. I was so busy this weekend I never had a chance to look, but I’m guessing from the size they probably poked out to daylight on Sat or Sun. That would be 6 or 7 days to sprouting, which is pretty good.
I learned that in prior years I probably was watering them too much, and that may have actually been bad. I’d sit there thinking, “the corn in the farmers fields is doing just fine, with no watering at all, just nature taking it’s course. Why isn’t mine sprouting? I water it every day! Oh…. 🙁 maybe that’s the problem.
This year I watered for the first couple days, and then just left it alone.
Today I’ll put up my bunny fence. Without a bunny fence, those little buggers will nip off half my crop practically overnight.
The 1 big reason GOP will lose the presidency in 2016
Commentary: Climate-science deniers can’t win with majority of Americans
It’s insane the way the stock market has taken off again of late. I’m not complaining. In fact I’m laughing all the way to the bank. But mostly just sitting here in wonderment. Don’t Fight The Tape.
Taj is good too
When you’re about to hit the wall, cue this up, crank it and play over and over until you get your second wind. Works every time.
round trip
Keepin’ it in Alabama, from Curtis Loew to Clyde May (this is your reward for helping friends move)
http://www.clydewhiskey.com/clydes-craft
A few of these too
Follow up to the road trip yesterday. Little did I know, that a bunch of furniture and other miscellany was destined for our basement. I think they sprung that on us at the last minute. That was probably good strategy. 😥
Too late now for son and girlfriend to ever break up. We’ve got all her childhood home stuff in our basement. That could get awkward.
You even learn a new word- ullage, as she asked me “what’s the ullage in that bottle of J&B that you’ve been infatuated with?”.
http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/ullage
Another up day in the market, hey EO? You leapfroggin’ son of a gun.
Yup. I’m itching to try another short, but I got burned on the last one. I’ve learned that all the so-called “fundamentals” are just a siren song, luring investors to their doom.
The Trend Is Your Friend. Best to just tie yourself to the mast and stick with that. But, how do we know when the trend has changed?
Well, that’s the hard part, isn’t it? There has to be a hard part. One thing seems certain. New highs ain’t it.
I think you just accept that you won’t anticipate the change in trend correctly, and that it is very costly trying to guess. Better to be the second mouse and get the cheese. Or as our financial guy states like a mantra, “no more home runs”. Just keep hitting the ball and getting to first. Watching and guessing has to be like entertainment almost, and when the tide turns, you dive in. Three metaphors!
It is interesting how moving out involves leaving stuff at your parents. We currently have a massive black tub of laundry, luckily [or because I washed it] clean, sitting in the living room in front of the fireplace. Daughter’s cupboard is full. But we are all pack rats, so I have little moral high ground, but I swear the people I live with leave a trail behind them.
Yes, as someone on some ridiculous blog once said, early explorers get shot full of arrows. Better to be one of the settlers in the second wave. Live to tell your grandchildren about it.
Metaphor Mania!
Of course, worst of all is to never see the trend change at all. Blinded by what you thought were “fundamentals”, you fight it all the way back down.
Working on a metaphor for that.
First one to put Namu through the hole wins. 🙄
Seriously, that iceberg just looks like a giant vagina now. Anybody who doesn’t see it is lying.
men
(but it really does)
I’m gonna make a guess anyway- do you really think interest rates are going up in a meaningful way any time soon? I don’t. So where will all the boomers go who don’t need growth so much but are looking for income? Dividend stocks will continue to catch a bid. Live by the sword, die by the sword. Badly wounded by the pm sword, but didn’t die, now recovered enough to fight again.
Sorry about the clip, Xty- I could have posted Antonio Banderas for you, but that would only satisfy one person. I’m striving for a wider audience.
Live to fight again another day. That’s the ticket, Dude!
No need to go down with the ship.
Metaphor Mania!
Dividend stocks is where we went to lick our wounds, so yes, still catching a bid. But I refuse to be a boomer. I insist you had to be born before 1960 to fall into that category, and if you do it is possible to be a conscientious objector.
I do (fall into that category)
I’ve been blathering about using the 200 day moving average as an emotionless indicator of trend change for what seems like forever now. Here’s an article talking about how just how long this trend has been running now. Time to go contra, just because it’s “long in the tooth”? No way. No how. Stay away, you Sirens! Can’t hear you, la, la, la!
So what the hell are you anyway- a boomer or a sooner?
Just cause itz dere n I bin drankin
According to xty’s cutoff, Mrs. O is a boomer, and I’m not. I guess “it’s really more of a guideline”.
That hole in the iceberg
It was her brother’s birthday, but she was the star for the camera
I think it’s ok to brag in some limited circumstances……………..
Cute kids? Ok.
Here are the two for whom we seem to be collecting a whole basement full of junk.
crap on a cracker…
How come they look so much better than you? I’m reminded of the acorn and the tree in my sitch……..
Well, he’s carrying my (and Mrs. O’s, I hasten to add) genetic legacy, as yet unsullied by decades of debauchery. She is unrelated, for now, but hopefully waiting in the wings to contribute, wink, wink.
Improving the stock!
Yeah, no kiddin’ 😎
Looks like Turdville has lost a few more subscribers in the past few days. Just rank terrorists is all they are. We need to be racially profiling these muthafuckas.
Birds of a Feather