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?
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CAMH calls for legalization of marijuana
Current system ‘failing to prevent or reduce the harms’ of pot use, researcher says
CBC News Posted: Oct 09, 2014 6:23 AM ET Last Updated: Oct 09, 2014 11:57 AM ET
Everyone agrees, except for the government. My head would be boiling but that would preclude it being so g’d darned chilly on this beautiful still morning. But when the main addiction and mental health organization also thinks it should be legalized, and Health Canada dances all around the fact that it is the drug of choice for many people with intolerable pain, and then grants them limited, pathetic access to it, you just have to hope there is anyone sane and with gonads in our government that can read the writing on the senate report that was started in 1969 when I was 7, and concluded in 1972, that also called for legalization. I am now 732, so bring it on.
From that report:
it really does come down to over simplification of everything. that is for example why both you and i hated Fix, or more generally the residents on the political wings – both sides!
who really can quantify how much oil is left? but the stuff we are drilling now comes at a steeper cost all the time – and costs that are difficult to measure. it is those damn externalities… aka private profits, public losses.
our country (USA) is over the cliff’s edge in many ways. our entire economy is based on cheap energy – for transportation, and for housing. in a million ways. if something must come to an end, it will. but we have the baby boomer bubble moving into retirement, and extreme wealth concentration. there is so much inertia that realistically nothing much will change until either a savior (pick one) arrives on planet Earth, or there is another bloody revolution, but this time it will be even bigger than the world wars we had before. i could be wrong of course, but i see no change at all, just denial, and misplaced blame. some of the kids coming of age are totally awake, but they are yet powerless. a declining birth rate puts off the turning point indefinitely.
ebola could prove to be the big black swan. the government’s response is so far typical… let’s downplay the risks so that people do not panic. but then you get major fuck ups like in Texas and Spain because no one is taking this seriously. the best policy is always to be honest. but that runs counter to every instinct of government, doesn’t it?
dang it, i finally post something, and it will be a last post again. thank you for acknowledging my efforts. though i write fairly fast, it is still time spent, and also brain power burned. i just cannot not seem to get in rhythm with you and EO.
Happy Thanksgiving Xty! yes, i see on my calendar that the Canucks had to front run another one of our holidays.
what the heck, i think i will post this on your new thread. the novel is rolling nicely btw.
… and legalize dope you wing-nut dopes! how so many of these republican hypocrites can you claim to be libertarian is beyond me. especially the Ayn Rand loving, everybody else hating, black and white world, heartless and soulless mofos (edit) like Paul Ryan R, Janesville WI. what i do in the privacy of my own home is my business and none of yours. or a simple cost/benefit analysis would do nicely. or even a quick review of the Golden Rule! oops. that was my quickest rant yet. 😯
hilarious, and yet so true. this was posted over at Jesse’s tonight. i swear that guy reads your blog Xty. 🙂
make sure to read some of the comments. the Ayn Rand defenders have to be the most ignorant and illiterate “whackadoodles” i have ever read, unless many of the comments are meant to be sarcastic. it is very hard to tell.
They say that anyone can be attractive at 50, that your character shows in your face. And I know this is petty, but you cannot but help to think that her ugly philosophy came naturally.
I have only read Atlas Shrugged, and it was an appalling novel. Imagine rereading any of her novels … and for inspiration. That would be like listening to Leonard Cohen to cheer you up.
but, but, but “Ayn Rand did such a fine job of explaining the morality of capitalism.”
payback is gonna be a bitch Paul – per your church, not mine. but i hope that this particular belief of yours proves 100% correct nonetheless.
good grief. and also good night!
yeah that Cuban guy is absolutely revolting. he is really quite infamous in the USA. he has enough yachts now, so lately he has begun collecting professional sports teams. he has a bad habit of insulting the officials, threatening opposing players, peppering opposing teams fans with profanity, and otherwise acting like the worlds biggest dick, all the while in full public televised view. Ayn Rand would be so proud.
OK. i’m really going to bed now.
It’s a well known fact that digital cameras do not convey the same true to life color and detail that film did, so editing is almost always a necessity.
With that in mind, I took the liberty of enhancing Xty’s rainbow image. And if you can add a little extra oomph, why not? It’s your art and everyone else does it.
Here is an out-of-the-camera example that is nowhere near what I really saw.
A little editing makes this much more pleasing. And yes, now it is “more” than what I really saw with the naked eye, but now “it’s my art”.
And now back to our regularly scheduled programming.
Played a lot back in the day, usually too loud and neighbors pounding on the wall.
Recreating what the mind’s eye saw is fair game in my books! I should put up a full size image so you could really go to town. I just figured out too late how the panorama feature works on my eye phone … that rainbow made it all the way over, and has a faint twin. I don’t have my 50 lens, so couldn’t take the whole thing with my bigger camera. I really want a 18 to something lens that is insanely good, or just a fixed wide angle.
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Them’s just straight off the phone (well, I did straighten them … I seem to have a list, like a drunken sailor shopping).
And good morning. Has the turntable cooled off yet?
I’m heading off for another “vacation” away from the internet. Bigger and better than any before. Apparently, Ebola was invented by that dastardly US Gubmint, deliberately released, in pursuit of a globalist agenda. Whatever. I’m done.
Catch you guys later. It’s nothing personal. But I’ve learned from experience, the only way to quit something is to go “cold turkey”. And that means dumping the good, as rare and wonderful as it may be, along with all the preponderance of bad.
The S&P 500 sits a hair over it’s 200 day. A weekly close below is a high probability over the rest of this month. That will end a lovely 23 month string for me. 40+% returns over a period like that is a once or twice in a decade occurence, if you are lucky. But nothing lasts forever, and that’s fine. It just means we move on to the next phase. Likely more difficult, but actually more “normal”. I won’t be posting any updates about it. Anyone who cares can track it themselves.
Gold, silver, and miners are all still mired in the depths of despair. Anyone who tells you otherwise, about them being fantastic values or primed for a moonshot, is blowing smoke up your ass, and selling you something at the same time.
Cash and bonds are likely to be winners over the near term. This is something that no hard money cave dwelling knuckle dragger would ever admit as a possibility over any time period whatsoever. Dogma bites Man. Man bites Dogma. On and on it goes…and I’m sick of it.
no one will keep track if you decide to sneak back here and post EO.
the public’s reaction to the unfolding ebola story so far has been lame. the most self absorbed generation of people to ever live on planet Earth may be about to meet their first unbiased judge. no amount of wealth, or the deepest bunker is going to matter much if this thing gets loose. from selfish apathy as this thing raged in Africa to finally some awareness now that it is HERE, but first hysteria has to be whipped up on the fringe. the news can’t ever simply be bad enough by itself for the whack jobs. my theory is that these wing-nuts in general allow fear to rule their lives. deep down inside they all are a pathetic bunch of cowards.
btw – a nurse in Texas has caught ebola from Duncan – breaking news this morning. so this situation does get a little more real.
so good morning all. thanks for the tunes and pictures. there are positive things all around too. i still believe in some sort of an awakening for mankind. but that is why i am so harsh on the right wing, Ayn Rand and so on. what has happened to compassion? i do not want to live in Paul Ryan’s world (aw shit, too late). how can selfish, hateful people, even with all the money in the world, even be happy at all? but i don’t think that they really are.
i recognized both words of the day today, and have probably spoken them in the last month. but that fact is not especially surprising for a lapidarist who also dabbles in woodworking.
have a nice day all.
EO…..I will surely miss you my friend. Love Pete.
I thought you would know the rock lingo, but a kerf? I love in those lumberjack contests when they have to notch a pole and slide in a plank to climb up. I guess those are kerfs! So is a kerfuffle the stuff that falls to the ground?
An empty freighter, owned by Canada Steamship Lines, which was owned by our squeaky Prime Minister Paul Martin [presumably still is] and when he was PM he would recuse himself from any dealings than affected his massive shipping empire, which was in a “blind trust” managed by his sons. I wonder what they talked about at dinner? Surely not the family business or government policy.
But what a gorgeous day. It has had a marvellous effect on my mood.
Hi Pete! nice to see you.
a good example of why kerf is important is what happens when it is ignored. i will use the 2nd definition above, which can also be thought of as the the width of your saw blade, though in practice your groove is slighter wider. anyway, lets say you want to cut several boards of exactly the same length, which is a must for most furniture projects. if you do not cut all of them on the same side of your marked lines, you will have some boards shorter than the others by the width of the kerf.
as far as chert goes, speaking for the laymen, no rock hound will give you any argument if you just think of it as the same thing as flint.
here is my nicest piece of flint – this was found in Greece, therefore this dates to the”Stone Age”. there are some ways to date these artifacts, and this retouched blade demonstrating the Levallois method most likely is between 12,000 to 18,000 years old.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Levallois_technique
Edited because I found a copy with better video: