Documenting the impact of improved climbing beans in Rwanda.

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Brian McCloskey: The Legenderry Boy In A Dress

IAEA Entomologist Andrew Parker displays adult female tsetse flies used for mass rearing at Seibersdorf Laboratories. (IAEA Seibersdorf, Austria, January 7, 2005)

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An associate scientist performs a Polymerase Chain Reaction (PCR) procedure to determine the presence of alleles or genes with known function or importance.

Part of the image collection of the International Rice Research Institute (IRRI).

After staining the slides are examined under the microscope to see the shape of the bacterial cells and to determine if the bacteria have stained with the Gram stain. (Entomology Unit, Seibersdorf, Austria, 2 June 2006)

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CIAT’s bean genebank at Kawanda research station, Uganda, receives new varieties from Colombia and safeguards beans across Africa. Researchers use the beans to breed more resilient varieties which are not only more drought and heat tolerant, but also more resistant to harmful pests and diseases, protecting the important bean staple.

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Bean breeding at CIAT in Kawanda, Uganda.

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Researchers perform a procedure to determine the presence of alleles or genes with a known function or importance.

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Part of the image collection of the International Rice Research Institute (IRRI).

Sulaiman Sebuliba, Research Technician, and Brenda Makyanzi, field technician. CIAT’s bean genebank at Kawanda research station, Uganda, receives new varieties from Colombia and safeguards beans across Africa. Researchers use the beans to breed more resilient varieties which are not only more drought and heat tolerant, but also more resistant to harmful pests and diseases, protecting the important bean staple.

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Documenting the impact of improved climbing beans in Rwanda.

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Concept design

Silicon support sandwiched between nanoDiamond

By a process combination of diamond deposition (one side), chemical Si etching, diamond deposition (2nd side), sublimate thin diamond with controlled diameter porous holes (laser/fib)

Documenting the impact of improved climbing beans in Rwanda.

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Researcher at the Department of Agrobiodiversity, Nguyen Hoai Thu.

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Documenting the impact of improved climbing beans in Rwanda.

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Entomology technician Rudi Boigner looks at newly emerged tsetse flies in an emergence cage. (Entomology Unit, Seibersdorf, Austria, 2 June 2006)

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Documenting the impact of improved climbing beans in Rwanda.

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False Shiva (aka “Monsanto Man” ) appears benevolent, hiding behind a beloved Shiva mask, his stance and multiple arms a poor imitation of the real Shiva. He is surrounded by dead and dying leaves, and a gold lasso to “Round Up” his victims, which include GM Corn, Soy, Rice and Beets. He holds in his hands a poison apple, a leafy noose with the bodies of hanging Indian suicide farmers, and a Wall Street Journal, which is also his dhoti. He stands victorious in his “merciless” Nike golf shoes, on the body of Mother Earth, whose basket of fresh fruit is scattered. He has no heart.

Yeah yeah, I know it’s bleak, but a lot of religious kitsch is pretty bleak too!

This is the second in a series of “Corporate Icons” I am working on – icons for a new and dismal age of rule by Corporate Demons.

So far I have used Byzantine and Hindu religious kitsch as inspiration – look for Western medieval and Persian illuminated manuscripts for the next ones.

Mixed media - acrylic on wood panel, leaves are made out of shrinky dinks. Large - 24" x 30"

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Bean breeding at CIAT in Kawanda, Uganda.

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Matthew 11:5 - Blind people see again, lame people are walking, those with skin diseases are made clean, deaf people hear again, dead people are brought back to life, and poor people hear the Good News.

With genetic engineering and all, the first things will happen soon enough all right, but my guess is that the poor people are not gonna hear any good news for a long time now ...

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Washington DC Oct. 12, 2013

Brian McCloskey: The Legenderry Boy In A Dress

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Tsetse fly pupae in the mass rearing section of the entomology unit at Seibersdorf laboratories. (IAEA Seibersdorf, Austria, January 7, 2005)

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Documenting the impact of improved climbing beans in Rwanda.

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Close up of Latin American adult fruit fly. (Entomology Unit, Seibersdorf, Austria, 2 June 2006)

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Laboratory technician Viwat Wornoayporn checking fruit fly larvae in the artificial diet. (Entomology Unit, Seibersdorf, Austria, 2 June 2006)

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Documenting the impact of improved climbing beans in Rwanda.

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In order to feed the tsetse flies, seibersdorf scientists use a silicone membrane to seperate the flies from the blood that they feed on. Tsetse flies do not feed directly on the blood as they do not recognize it as a food source. The membrane allows the scientists to collect the blood to feed the flies from a slaughter house instead of feeding the flies on live animals. (IAEA Seibersdorf, Austria, January 7, 2005)

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Documenting the impact of improved climbing beans in Rwanda.

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Documenting the impact of improved climbing beans in Rwanda.

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Entomology technician Rudi Boigner separates adult tsetse flies by sexes after they are immobilize at 4 oC. (Entomology Unit, Seibersdorf, Austria, 2 June 2006)

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Work for the CGIAR's Roots, Tubers & Bananas Research Program in East Africa.

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Molecular biologist Dr. Herve Christophe Bossin isolates a single female mosquito (Anopheles arabiensis) from a mosquito cage at the IAEA Seibersdorf Entomology unit. (IAEA Entomology Unit, Seibersdort, Austria, 1 June 2006)

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Tsetse fly adult in a single fly holding tube. (Entomology Unit, Seibersdorf, Austria, 2 June 2006)

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Documenting the impact of improved climbing beans in Rwanda.

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A small error in the subtitles for a science story

Maize in Colombia's eastern plains, or Llanos.

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After staining the slides are examined under the microscope to see the shape of the bacterial cells and to determine if the bacteria have stained with the Gram stain. (Entomology Unit, Seibersdorf, Austria, 2 June 2006)

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Mr Amirul Islam from the entomology unit seibersdorf uses a aspirator in sorting male and females flies. (Entomology Unit, Seibersdorf, Austria, 2 June 2006)

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Documenting the impact of improved climbing beans in Rwanda.

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I'm very pleased to announce my book is finally available as a paperback! Just look at my happy little face! To anyone who ever said they'd buy one when it was available in print or anyone who was wondering whether I can string a sentence together, well now's your chance! Go on, buy one. You know you want to...

Here's the Amazon link for Skin & Bones...

Skin and Bones is the story of a horrifying virus outbreak from two vastly different viewpoints. One is the person responsible for the horrifying global pandemic and one is an unnamed source who can do little more than respond to the primitive instinct for survival. There's also a cat named Mog and some zombie pigs...

This morning you woke up feeling a little unwell. You have no appetite, your head is aching, your throat is sore and you think you might have a slight fever. You don’t know it yet, but the virus has already been working away inside you for a week or so and has been busy attacking your immune system. It’s reached the stage where it’s really about to make its presence known.

The virus will wreak permanent changes. From the second you were infected the grave is your only and eventual way out. At least by that point you’ll have no knowledge of what you’re doing. Just following some of the baser human instincts that have been modified and enhanced. Your end is nigh. Along with just about everybody else’s...

Washington DC Oct. 12, 2013

Call the President TODAY 3-26-13 or send en email before he signs this new bill!!! Write this: please veto HR 933, the short term spending bill, due to the inclusion of a dangerous rider by Congress, The Monsanto Protection Act, that is harmful to our environment, family farmers and citizens.

The passage of Section 735 in Congress is an outrage against family farmers and our Constitution, undermining judicial review and our democratic rights in favor of corporate handouts and bribery.

Documenting the impact of improved climbing beans in Rwanda.

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Documenting the impact of improved climbing beans in Rwanda.

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Guillermo Sotelo of CIAT's entomology team, working with brachiaria in a greenhouse at the institution's headquarters in Colombia. The team will soon publish CIAT's first peer-reviewed video publication - follow the CIAT blog for more: ciatnews.cgiar.org/en/

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Entomology Technician Hasim Mohammed prepares to fed the flies. The tsetse flies are fed on cow blood from the slaughter house. The blood is checked for bacterial contamination before use. (Entomology Unit, Seibersdorf, Austria, 2 June 2006)

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