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Source: Bokashi – Chemical Analysis and Biology

Pretty good bokashi blog. So many that I look at have so many significant scientific flaws that I am wary of how valid any of their points are.

But this one is pretty good. And I like the caveats that he uses very carefully at times to simplify complex microbial ideas.

Best to all.
Bob

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https://youtu.be/rdF3mnyS1p0

OMG this is/was my life!

This is what I spent 10+ years studying :-) not the specific structures shown, but the chemistry surrounding it.

And if anyone is interested (which I’m sure they’re not) :-) complex one cannot just dump the electrons into the Matrix _you cannot have free electrons_ which is why we don’t get shocked by our electronic gizmos. And so complex one _must_ past those electrons to coenzyme Q

With the proton gradient, the electronic gradient-psi, and the mechanisms of energy production. These gradients affect chemical solubility in the membrane and thus the ability of chemicals to cross the membrane and cause chemical damage to the DNA that is contained within these organelles.

I studied bacteria, but the systems are exquisitely similar to those of our mitochondria.

This is also why some of us take antioxidants. The last step where the electrons are put on to oxygen to create water — if it makes a mistake it creates a reactive oxygen species not water which can damage our DNA

ILTS i love this ☺

Best to all

https://youtu.be/rdF3mnyS1p0

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Dedicated to my friend Tad who is immortalized at the bottom of each page of my website and who introduced me to The Onion.

I still am laughing about the story. I particularly like the fact that they euthanized it with Roundup! and if the flower freaking out over a bee is still is on the link … feel free! — warning strong language (eye roll)
https://local.theonion.com/botanic-garden-forced-to-euthanize-rose-bush-that-prick-1826486145
Best Bob

Here is some fantastic writing. And I was amused flabbergasted tickled that he used many of the same words I have used myself. Granted I have used them in other situations such as school children and environmental issues but I wanted to send a quick post. The more we can get critical thinking into the newscycle the better.
www.aljazeera.com/indepth/opinion/profile/charles-davis.html
freecharlesdavis.com/about/
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My friends,

Chemical companies slip stuff by us everyday. I had a client recently who is a member of the Audubon Society probably a member of the Sierra Club and yet spayed her trees for bugs. Beatles to be exact as if birds didn’t eat bugs.

The spray that she had a company use — she didn’t know what it was. When pressed, she finally talked to the company and found out that it was Chemical X2ZY or something. She didn’t know what that was and apparently didn’t care.

I’m sure that she believes that she is a good Christian, a good liberal, a good member of society, and very smart lady. And yet given all of the above she didn’t even know that she was “spraying” a neonicotinoid pesticide that was stable for more than 9 months onto her trees, where it would be incorporated into the leaves and blooms and flowers!

Poor bees!

It is hard to be “up on” and aware of everything going on around us. It takes effort to be aware that what you are doing is a problem. It takes effort to _learn_ . I do not believe that our role in the world is to be ignorant. I do not believe that it is enlightenment to be lazy and not wish to learn.

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Just got this email and thought I would post it.

On May 21, 2018 11:05 AM, wrote:
Greetings all,

After three years of robust input from our project stakeholders, the Steering Committee of the Tree Care for Birds and other Wildlife Project offer a new view on the timing of tree care to prevent harm to nesting birds. We hope you find it both informative and encouraging. And we hope it will continue to inspire stronger partnerships between us in the coming years.

treecareforbirds.com/re-thinking-a-moratorium-on-tree-care-for-birds/

Best regards,

Cavity Conservation Initiative 949-412-0588 www.cavityconservation.com Facebook page treecareforbirds.com Facebook Page

Best to all Bob

Dragonflies; some of the best mosquito predators around, should be coming out of the water this time of year.

Many species of dragonflies have spent the winter as larvae in the water. In the spring they crawl out on a leaf, or branch, or rock. Then they split their skin, crawl out, and expand their wings just like a butterfly does. Once their wings have dried, they fly away to become some of the best mosquito predators around.

They thus leave their larval skin shell behind.

I have seen only one correctly pupated dragonfly shell this spring but I do keep seeing dead larva like the one shown in my hand in the picture.

They float to the top and have an orangeish appearance in their tissues that is unusual. They are all the age that they should climb out and transform into dragonflies but instead they die.

This is the classic behavior of the action of a certain class (IGRs) of insecticides on insects.

From Wikipedia:
— The insecticides ….

that inhibit ecdysone can cause pupal mortality by interrupting the transformation of larval tissues into adult tissues during the pupal stage.[4]

The Aquatic systems I’m looking at are well away from any agricultural area and quite diverse. And it is thus my opinion that there has been aerial spraying of IGR insecticides in the Temecula area.

This is annoying to me on several levels. First: It kills the very mosquito predators that we want. It thus promotes the jobs of the vector control bureaucrats.

But it also negates the efforts that so many people are making to assist the monarch butterfly population.

This class of insecticide also target’s butterflies, such as Monarchs.

Bob
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I moved recently, but I was able to save six Pacific chorus frog tadpoles and put them in a small constructed wetland I developed. last year they became frogs and this year three began singing in my wetland plant containers.

They ended up having a lot of tadpoles and I have since built a small Greenhouse and was moving some of my plants into the greenhouse when I came across Mr. or Mrs. – Frogpole.

And decided at the same time to post something I have recently seen about Roundup being an endocrine disruptor in tadpoles. Oh my.

gmfreescotland.blogspot.com/2012/04/tadpole-tails.html?m=1

The best to you all

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Increased awareness of the health consequences of eating too much sugar has fueled a dramatic uptick in the consumption of zero-calorie artificial sweeteners in recent decades. However, new research finds sugar replacements can also cause health changes that are linked with diabetes and obesity, suggesting that switching from regular to diet soda may be a case of ‘out of the frying pan, into the fire.’

Source: Why zero-calorie sweeteners can still lead to diabetes, obesity

Well This may be why.

Best to all.