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It's finally here!!! The new coffee maker! It makes coffee. Good coffee! It replaces the broken ones. It's from zojirushi.
I know the coffee gourmet's, or cormet's as I like to call them, will say "over head drip, that sucks". And they're right. It's not as good as my french press at home. But considering people here would buy folgers if I let them we're doing pretty good. It's thermal carafe is good and it doesn't even have a heating element underneath, so no burninating.
Ok. Enough gushing. Off to the kitchenette to refill my silly mug.
I finished my shift yesterday morning with a serious knife assault.
I was like twenty yards away, when a disagreement went south with the speed of light.
Pulled my gun and was fractions of a second to shoot the perpetrator, but for some reason, I put the gun back in the holster and jumped at him, roaring like a bear.
Very effective, actually.
All activity around just stopped, and he dropped down on the street, face down.
When cuffing him, he sort of came back to fight mode.
Doing some weird alligator roll, over and over. I got bored with him and put my knee between his shoulder. A big no-no, I know, but what the hell do I know what this druginduced fella is capable of, really?
Someone shouted about "overviolence", but hey?
Fine. Come over and do my job then. For a night or two.
At least his victim is fine now, and grateful for my work.
That´s enough for me.
He is happy. And alive.
An office space.
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Participants in CIMMYT's 2010 Wheat Improvement and Pathology Training Program examine and take notes on the symptoms present in a set of leaf rust differentials. These are wheat lines with known responses to different leaf rust races, or pathotypes. Pathotypes vary in their virulence to different resistance genes, and so infection types and levels in different lines vary depending on the genes they contain. By codifying the responses of the differentials scientists can determine the pathotype of an unknown isolate of the pathogen.
The training course ran for three months, from 15 February to 14 May 2010, with sixteen participants from eight countries (India, Paraguay, Brazil, Ethiopia, Bangladesh, Turkey, and Afghanistan). They program was balanced between theoretical and practical learning, including wheat breeding, pathology and quality, molecular techniques, applied statistics, and participation in hands-on fieldwork such as selections, crossing, and disease screening..
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Photo credit: X. Fonseca/CIMMYT.
On the reverse of the card which dropped through our letterbox and onto our doormat on the morning of Thursday 3rd August 2017 was this map. It was from Amelia and Alastair in Croatia. We know an Amelia and we know an Alastair but they are not together. We didn't know anyone who'd been to Croatia, least of all Korcula.
After a while the penny dropped. We remembered being on holiday in Korcula in 2012 and drawing a map in the visitors' book of the apartment we'd stayed in (see next).
Problem solved - after five years!
There wasn't even a stamp on the card.
PS: Amelia and Alastair turned out to be an Australian brother and sister living in Stockholm. Amelia is 18, her brother a bit younger.
The Flickr Group Roulette challenge today is "Camera Toss". People are being all whiney about tossing there cameras. I tossed my prized iPhone, people. Bring it!!!
A farmer feeds his animals in the village of Baikunthapur, Chirirbandar, Bangladesh, typical of the rural areas where CIMMYT is having an impact in improving the livelihoods of small farmers.
Photo credit: S. Mojumder/Drik/CIMMYT.
For the latest on CIMMYT in Bangladesh, see CIMMYT's blog at: blog.cimmyt.org/?tag=bangladesh.