So, a very Merry Christmas to those who celebrate it, and a very merry December 25th to the rest of you.
One parting thought.
Posted on 10/06/2018 2:02:35 PM PDT by BenLurkin
Pentagon research project called "Insect Allies." Funded by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), the project involves using gene-editing techniques like CRISPR to infect insects with modified viruses that could help make America's crops more resilient. If a cornfield were hit by an unexpected drought or suddenly exposed to a pathogen, for example, Insect Allies might deploy an army of aphids carrying a genetically modified virus to slow the corn plant's growth rate.
According to the DARPA website, these "targeted therapies" could take effect in a single growing season, potentially protecting the American crop system from food security threats like disease, flooding, frost and even "threats introduced by state or non-state actors.
… Insect Allies, is less concerned. "Anytime you're developing a new and revolutionary technology, there is that potential for [both offensive and defensive] capability," Bextine told The Washington Post. "But that is not what we are doing. We are delivering positive traits to plants… We want to make sure we ensure food security, because food security is national security in our eyes."
Insect Allies is still in the early stages of development, and at least four U.S. colleges (Boyce Thompson Institute, Penn State University, The Ohio State University and the University of Texas at Austin)have received funding to carry out research. Bextine told The Washington Post that the project recently achieved its first milestone — testing whether an aphid could infect a stalk of corn with a designer virus that caused fluorescence. According to the Washington Post, "the corn glowed."
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N-T-I, may your fall and winter give way to a glorious spring.
No bleeding along the way.
Wishing you and yours all the blessings our Lord can bring
Woah! I hope I have room for all that.
Thanks, N-T-I.
Morning. Graduation is complete. No pictures: we had to turn everything off.
SHHHHHHH! That’s so they can all be candidates for covert ops. Can’t have Fakebook notifying Kim Jong Un that your Marine is headed to his nuke plant to demolish it.
Congrats to all anyway.
I suspected as much for this one, as no one wants pictures of their children posted anywhere if the pics can be used in wartime to target said child warrior.
So are you on your way home, now?
Yes. We’re just west of Whiteville, where we ate lunch at Arby’s. Elen is listening to ghastly punk music that hurts my fillings.
Well, darn. I have looked through every container I could find, and there is no printer ink. I thought at least it would be with the Vegas Golden Knights stuff, but no, it isn’t there. That was one of the last containers packed.
I bought a small cartridge at Walmart, but the printer didn’t recognize it. So I took it back this morning and exchanged it. Same thing. I’m tempted to try and put it back in and see if it will print, even if the printer says it doesn’t recognize the cartridge. I need ink!
I would buy a double cartridge if it could, but no word from AmEx, yet.
Typically, saying something like, "Oh, this is a GREAT song. Turn it UP" will get her to change the playlist or station or whatever.
Except when it doesn’t, and your fillings fall out.
Well. I finally figured out why I couldn’t find my ink: It never made it onto the truck. Somehow, a container broke or was opened, and contents that had been packed into it were then transferred to another container. This container was one I didn’t pack, but had sat empty on the patio. (It was a military container for electronics equipment that Igor had carried with him for a lot of years. Since I didn’t pack it, I didn’t think anything of interest could be in it.)
In it, I found the bag of hats I couldn’t find but they were not in the same bag I had put them in. My small travel computer was in there along with my paper cutter and the parts to the lamp I wanted to rebuild. They were all in the box with the ink.
So now, I have to write to my Real Brother and let him know there is no more ink to be had. This really irritates me. I’ve lost so much on this move, and now, I’m faced with outright theft. Its a hard thing to contemplate but it is the only explanation as to why the ink is nowhere to be found.
Well, that’s really crummy. Have you unpacked absolutely everything? In one move, I thought I’d lost all my religious pictures, but they turned up in a small box with my sewing machine.
I don’t suppose that box had a TRS-80 in it?
Everything has been unpacked, as of this morning. I finished unpacking when I came back from donating a bunch of stuff to the Catholic thrift store a few blocks away.
There were only three more containers at that point, and as I said, one wasn’t packed by me. The hats were. They were in a white garbage bag when I packed them, and a Space Bag when I found them. The handle of the paper cutter had lost the grip (it was still attached when I packed it) but it was on the floor of this container. So yes, its all been unpacked.
I just emailed my Real Brother and told him of my negligence, so I hope he isn’t too angry with me for being so wasteful of his gift.
Nope. No TRS-80 in there. Not even a gift certificate for $600. Just. Stuff. I feel like Orlando Bloom in “Pirates of the Caribbean:” “NOT where I left YOU.”
So I’m going to bed. Tomorrow, I’ll begin putting linens and clothing into Space Bags to free up some room so I’m not tripping over containers forever. I don’t want to have to live with them for too much longer. Space Bags don’t hurt so much when you bump into them.
I’m glad you’re back home, and glad to know your Marine graduated and has a few days’ Leave to spend the holiday with her family.
‘Night...
So, a very Merry Christmas to those who celebrate it, and a very merry December 25th to the rest of you.
One parting thought.
B-b-but...Tuesday is Christmas. You don’t work on Christmas, do you? (I always did so those with families could be home.)
Happy Christmas to you and yours!
Merry Christmas, ArGee. If you’re going somewhere, I hope you get there and back safely!
Hope you have a good night!
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