The day has passed, Joan is in bed, and now for this blog. We had a good day.
After a raspberry banana smoothie for breakfast, I helped Joan get dressed, and we went to Solacki Park to see how the leaves had changed. There was more color than on our last visit, and I thought too late about taking my camera. If tomorrow has the same weather, we will go back with the camera and make a video of our walk around.
My hands are not too steady anymore, so I figured out a way to attach the camera to Joan's chest and just let it record while I push her around the park. I hope Joan's video will turn out with a more steady view. The weather was perfect for the walk and we stayed about 2 hours in the park. Being Sunday and nice weather, there were a lot of people walking. Tomorrow being a workday, there shouldn't be as many so it will also make a better video.
Back at home, we watched an interesting program on "60 Minutes". It was about the Svalbard Global Seed Bank.
The Svalbard Global Seed Vault is a secure backup facility for the world's crop diversity on the Norwegian island of Spitsbergen in the remote Arctic Svalbard archipelago.
The Seed Vault provides long-term storage for duplicate seeds from around the world, conserved in gene banks. This provides security of the world's food supply against the loss of seeds in genebanks due to mismanagement, accidents, equipment failures, funding cuts, war, sabotage, disease, and natural disasters. The Seed Vault is managed under terms spelled out in a tripartite agreement among the Norwegian government, the Crop Trust, and the Nordic Genetic Research Center.
The Norwegian government entirely funded the Seed Vault's approximately 45 million kr (US$8.8 million in 2008) construction cost. Norway and the Crop Trust pay for operational costs. Storing seeds in the vault is free to depositors.
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