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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I know exactly how you feel. That has to be one of the most uncomfortable feelings in the world, and I wish I could do something to help you get warm. At least the heat would help to ease the pain.
Yes, it hurts less when I’m in the van with the heater on full!
I’d like to lie on the sofa under three blankets with Jake and watch more videos of the sunny Mediterranean isles, but there are too many people around. Instead, I’ll listen to a National Review podcast and make pumpkin soup. Chopped onions, chopped celery, some bell pepper if there’s any in the freezer, can of pumpkin, and some leftover boiled chicken.
It will be hot!
When I got done at the bank and post office, I took that pic from between the USPS and Lin’s Market.
When I got home, I loaded the truck with all the stuff that would fit into it, so there isn’t much left.
Maybe next week, I can get the odd containers in the bedroom emptied of their clothes and use Space Bags for storage. I can also put the rug down and build the things for the bathroom and at that point, it might feel like “home.”
As luck would have it, I beheaded Balthazar accidentally. I need to fix him and put him away asap.
Oops. In one of my sets, we’ve put the head back on Joseph several times.
On one of my trips to AR, we went into a thrift shop and I found a ceramic Nativity that was probably $3, and rather than take it on the plane with me, I boxed it up and shipped it home. When it got there, the bottom corner of the box wad pushed in, like it had been dropped.
Sure enough. Joseph’s feet were broken. It was insured the standard $100 and I took it to the post office a day or so after I got it. The clerk asked me what I wanted and I said I’d like to be reimbursed for the damage. Her response was, “You have to expect things like that, and how do I know it wasn’t broken when you sent it? NEXT!”
Next time, I’ll take it with me on the plane!
By this do you mean putting out less or no hot air or weak/nonexistent air movement?
All of the above, actually. It will keep about the first 6-8” free from the base of the windshield, unless I open the windows, and it has to be both windows.
It worked pretty good last winter, though I did notice it wasn’t as good as the previous years.
I thought it might be because of leaves blocking the intake, but I have no way to check that.
So sorry you’re not feeling well. Is the back pain from a vehicular accident or something else? We have a Homemedic (sp?) massager and it works beautifully with most muscular pain (residual). Do you have a heating pad? They always tell you not to lie on those things but how do you get reasonably full contact otherwise?
When not on defrost is the heat normal? Airflow out of heat ducts other than the ones to the windshield normal? Or is the entire system degraded?
If that year vehicle has a cabin air filter it could be clogged, especially if air flow is weak from every vent. If there were chipmunks or mice around where the car was parked over the years they may have chosen to build a domicile in your air ducts. (Happens here.. ;-)
Can you select between interior and exterior air? If so does either setting change the air flow? Air flow volume should not change appreciably when changing settings. Are the vent controls operated by a cable or by vacuum? A cable could have come disconnected or a vacuum hose broken/deteriorated from age or some such scenario.
Does the car have a temp gauge or just a ‘hot’ idiot light? Ig a gauge, is it reading normally? If the thermostat is not functioning properly or is mot there the coolant temp might never warm up in cold weather leaving you with a heater that blows cold air.
Just some thoughts above, but if it’s the equivalent of Greek then unfortunately you’ll need someone to look at it for you. Unless you want to visit this God-forsaken liberal cesspool corner of the country. Then I could look at it.. ;-)
As far as I could tell, on either side of the track, it was the wrong side of the track all the way.
Sometimes it does become a guess. May the guess be with us
No, I haven’t had an accident. This just started up, maybe a week and a half ago. We have that massager, too. I just haven’t done anything with it.
It seems, when I switch the airflow to heat and defrost that there is heat on my legs, but I can’t recall if its a strong flow because I wear long warm pants in the winter.
I don’t have a mechanic’s manual like I did for the Toyota, but there is an owner’s manual, so I can check to see if there is anything like a cabin air filter, though I doubt it.
Yes, I can select between interior and exterior air, and there doesn’t seem to be a change in the flow volume, just the change in sound. I don’t know about the cable/vacuum hose vent controls.
Yes, there is a temperature gauge and yes, it reads normally as the engine heats up. For what its worth, the coolant that was available in Vegas is 50/50, but because of the altitude and often freezing temps at this higher elevation, I may be able to find full strength, which I prefer. I also prefer to call it anti-freeze!
That's scary. I think of wicked things like fibromyalgia when I hear stuff like that. I hope its just temporary and associated with the weather. <3
I wonder what would happen
...if I took
...this spot?
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