flyer campaign really begun
Mood:  a-ok

Hello from New York!

The flyer campaign in English was begun yesterday, to help spread the word about genomic integrity and how we can protect it and hopefully investigate it for better risk analyses.  

Here in the 'Village,' where about 90% of women and possibly more than 20% of men are dying their hair, groups of smokers can still be found outside (sometimes near 'no smoking' signs) and 'anti-bacterial' soaps seem to have quite a large market, it seems like a good place to start!

There has even, it seems, been some response already!  Not just nice people that took the flyer (I made bigger fonts for the English version, so it is more legible with 4 copies printed per page), but even a new comment from last night in this blog!!  There seem to be a couple more new american flags in the counter too!  Thank you!  

Let's see how much this idea will spread, even though people do keep exposing themselves to many suspect compounds and my former hopes for a 'tipping point' back in 2009 have not really panned out.  (even the journal 'genome integrity' is changing owners - and the editor did not write back from singapore)

Another recent hitch to mention, the spanish launch has been put off to 'mañana' - 15sept14 is now chosen for its target date.  Esperamos!!  It will be great to get this info out even more broadly!  (Tweets in Twitter on this topic should be made again, too...)

Overall, however, for AGiR! we can say all is aok, with new people and old friends joining in.  Soon it will be Fall, and the time for the 2nd Meeting of the General Assembly!  But in the meantime, enjoy the rest of the summer!

best wishes!