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Hildi Hawkins
New from the archive
23 June 2015 | This 'n' that
Kalle Päätalo. Photo: Gummerus.
This week, Kalle Päätalo – once Finland's most successful author
Author Kalle Päätalo (1919-2000) was a rare bird in the book-publishing world. Beginning in 1962, his series of autobiographical novels Juuret Iijoen törmässä ('Roots on the banks of the Iijoki river') were published annually in editions of 100,000 copies. At a cautious estimate, one million Finns out of a total population of five million read Päätalo. He was a unique phenomenon, and, for his publishers, a highly lucrative one.
Despite his popularity, this former forestry worker and builder never achieved critical acclaim; the literary establishment remained cool towards him. What was the secret of his enormous appeal? By 1987, when we published this week's extracts, the way of life Päätalo was chronicling was fast disappearing; he portrayed of the living and working conditions of the far north and the rich dialect of the region with a near-anthropological accuracy. Päätalo's autobiography was almost coterminous in scope with the existence of independent Finland, and his depiction of the ruggedly individual characters of the north was at the same time a celebration of national values.
In this excerpt, from Tammerkosken sillalla ('On Tammerkoski bridge', 1982), the narrator's excitement as he finds Martin Eden by Jack London – along with the Finnish author Mika Waltari, one of Päätalo's great writer-heroes – in the local library is palpable. And many of his readers would have remembered the difficulties of living in small apartments at close quarters with other family members, in this case a less-than-congenial mother-in-law: 'My cock cowered among my pubic hair like a guilty prankster after a practical joke…'.
The Books from Finland digitisation project continues, with a total of 400 articles and book excerpts made available on our website so far. Each week, we bring a newly digitised text to your attention.
Helvi Hämäläinen. Photo: Literary Archives of the Finnish Literature Society.
This week, an excerpt from Helvi Hämäläinen's gorgeously sensuous novel Säädyllinen murhenäytelmä ('A respectable tragedy',1941)
Right at the top of the list of untranslated Finnish masterpieces, for me, is Helvi Hämäläinen's monumental Säädyllinen murhenäytelmä.
Written in the fateful summer of 1939, as the world waited for war, this story of love among the Helsinki intelligentsia is at the same time both a roman a clef – it caused a sensation on publication as the real people behind the fictional characters were recognised – and a vivid picture of its age. The falling cadences of its luxuriantly proliferating phrases offer a voluptuously aesthetic poetry of the senses as they slowly tell the story of love lost and then, gradually, regained. And the book answers the question, what was it like to be alive then?, with incomparable vividness. In this extract, the novelty of apartment living in the 1930s, the colours and smells, the new social habits, are all brought to life with extraordinary intensity.
We also republish a selection of poems published much later in Hämäläinen's life, many of them impassioned elegies for the lives lost in the Second World War, giving voice to the sheer weight of sorrow, of grief for those who were lost.
If you'd like to read more, Soila Lehtonen's evocative essay on Säädyllinen murhenäytelmä accompanies another excerpt; while a glimpse of its sequel, Kadotettu puutarha, ('The lost garden', 1995), follows the story onward to an elegiac description of the parts of Karelia that were ceded to the Soviet Union in the Second World War.
Soila Lehtonen
Leena Krohn: Erehdys ['The mistake']
8 June 2015 | Mini reviews, Reviews
Erehdys ['The mistake']
Helsinki: Teos, 2015. 154 pp.
€24.00, hardback
The protagonist of this new novel by Leena Krohn (born 1947) is an elderly author, E., who one dark and cold winter night arrives by car in a small town to perform in a literary event at a local library. The atmosphere does not seem very welcoming, and as the author begins reading extracts from his works, the comments and questions from the audience are mostly negative and impolite, even hostile. Gradually the sinisterness of the whole event becomes tragicomic; on leaving, the author has to fight his feelings of self-pity and anger. This novel frames E's life in a portrait of a serious soul in constant pursuit of comprehending life – which he finally seems to acquire in death (in a car accident). The larger part of the novel consists of the stories the author reads; they will be familiar in style to fans of Krohn's work. Unexpected, strange and unexplicable events and moments of everyday life take the characters by surprise; dreams, memories, remembering and forgetting what has taken place in the history – imagined or real – may perhaps change the way they have lived their lives.
Minna Lindgren
Intelligent living
8 June 2015 | Fiction, Prose
Minna Lindgren. Photo: Ville Palonen.
In Ehtoolehdon tuho ['The decline of Twilight Grove', Teos, 2015), the final novel in a trilogy about life in an assisted living home, employing human staff has become too expensive and the old folk are part of a pilot project in which they are cared for by electronic devices, monitors, cameras, 'smartwalls' and cleaning robots: 'there was intelligence everywhere, masses of it, just a hiccup and something terribly intelligent would happen.'
The aged lady residents don't like their new life, but they're resilient; they're not about to let the new technology defeat them…
Minna Lindgren's mordantly satirical, often hilariously funny writing has earned her a wide readership. Translations of the trilogy are soon to appear in English, German and French.
An excerpt from Ehtoolehdon tuho ['The decline of Twilight Grove', Teos, 2015). Review by Soila Lehtonen
'You're 97 today! Your wakeup call service today congratulates!'
As if she wouldn't have remembered. Ninety-seven was almost a hundred. She and Irma had decided that they would refuse to turn one hundred. It would only make trouble. One lady, in the bottom apartment of the A staircase, had received an invitation to the health centre on her birthday. Apparently all five-year-olds were called in for monitoring of their motor and psychological development, and when this lady turned 105, the computer system thought she was a toddler. The computer didn't recognise numbers over one hundred. Siiri thought the lady should have kept the appointment; she would have done, for the tests were fun. You had to draw a triangle and walk along a straight line. Not that easy for someone of 105. But the lady didn't go, she just made a terrible fuss about it and complained to everyone, until she died before her complaints reached the right official. More…
Minna Lindgren: Ehtoolehdon tuho [The downfall of Twilight Grove]
Ehtoolehdon tuho [The downfall of Twilight Grove]
Helsinki: Teos, 2015. 288pp.
€29.90, paperback
This is the final novel in a trilogy by the writer and music editor Minna Lindgren (born 1963). The protagonists in Kuolema Ehtoolehdossa ('Death in Twilight Grove', 2013) were lively ninety-something ladies in an assisted living facility in Helsinki. Now their life is turning more and more satirically and grotesquely absurd: as employing human workforce is becoming too expensive for the owners of the facility, the old folks are being cared for by electronic devices, monitors, cameras, 'smartwalls' and cleaning robots, and their food – tasteless but colourful paste – is dispensed from 3D vending machines. In addition to all this, the members of a devious religious group, in pursuit of any money that the inhabitants may still have, begin to manipulate them. Things are not looking good, but the resourceful ladies are not about to give in, even though one of them will peacefully – and considering her age, naturally – pass away (in her bed, holding her favourite book, Thomas Mann's The Magic Mountain). Lindgren defends the human rights of her characters with gusto. No wonder, then, that the trilogy will shortly appear in several languages, including English, German and French.
11 May 2015 | Fiction, Prose
Bracing the waves. Ivan Aivazovsky, 1890.
According to Petri Tamminen, Finns are burdened by the need to succeed. Instead, he argues they should learn to fail better.
Part comedy, part tragedy, part picaresque novel, with a dash of Joseph Conrad – Tamminen's new book, Meriromaani. Eräitä valoisia hetkiä merikapteeni Vilhelm Huurnan synkässä elämässä ('A maritime novel. A few bright moments in Captain Vilhelm Huurna's sombre life', Otava, 2015) is set in an indeterminate seafaring past of the 18th or 19th century. It tells the story of the world's most unsuccessful sea captain, Vilhelm Huurna who, one by one, sinks all the ships he commands.
Tamminen (born 1966) is a master of very short prose – this miniature novel is a a huge undertaking in the context of his work as a whole – and at Books from Finland we're big fans. You can read more of his work here.
We join the story as Huurna, leaving behind him a failed romance in Viipuri, sets sail for Archangel, on the far north coast of Russia.
An excerpt from Meriromaani. Eräitä valoisia hetkiä merikapteeni Vilhelm Huurnan synkässä elämässä ('A maritime novel. A few bright moments in Captain Vilhelm Huurna's sombre life', Otava, 2015)
The sun shone on the Arctic Ocean night and day, and the voyage went amazingly well, as did all the tasks and jobs that Huurna particularly feared beforehand.
Ships lay in Archangel harbour like objects on a collector's shelf. They were waiting for timber cargo from the local sawmills where work was at a standstill because the mills lacked the machines and machine parts that they were now bringing them. When their cargo had been unloaded and the machines installed, timber began arriving from the sawmills. They found themselves at the end of the queue, and after the other ships had departed, one by one, they were still waiting in Archangel. That suited Huurna; in the first few days of his stay he had become acquainted with two English merchants and, through them, had received invitations to parties. He had stood in salons drinking toasts to the honour of this or that and made the acquaintance of some charming ladies into whose eyes he wished to gaze another time. He was quite moved by the whirl of this unexpected social life, and brightened at the thought that there was really nothing to complain about in his life apart from the fact that he happened still to be a bachelor. More…
Minna Lindgren: Ehtoolehdon pakolaiset [The refugees of Twilight Grove]
26 March 2015 | Mini reviews, Reviews
Ehtoolehdon pakolaiset
[The refugees of Twilight Grove]
This is the second volume of a novel trilogy by the writer and music editor Minna Lindgren (born 1963). The protagonists in Kuolema Ehtoolehdossa ('Death in Twilight Grove', 2013) were ladies in their nineties in an assisted living facility in Helsinki – administered by a foundation entitled (ironically enough), 'Care and Love of the Elderly'. Lindgren's 'adventure satire' continues to focus on the lack of common sense, respect and empathy (as well as presence or interest of relatives) in the – often patronising – care of the elderly. The story revolves round the evacuation of the inhabitants from the facility to temporary housing as a tragicomically huge renovation project sets off, not without some seriously fishy business. This volume might be described as a slightly more sombre in its themes than the previous one, as illnesses and death occur – however, the point is that dying, not an unexpected turn in a person's life after the age of 90, should be regarded as something natural. As what Lindgren writes about is by no means a phenomenon foreign to contemporary western societies, it is not surprising that so far the translation rights of the trilogy into eight languages have been sold.
Stephen Chan
Hare-raising
13 February 2015 | Reviews
In this job, it's a heart-lifting moment when you spot a new Finnish novel diplayed in prime position on a London bookshop table – and we've seen Tuomas Kyrö's The Beggar & The Hare in not just one bookshop, but many. Popular among booksellers, then – and we're guessing, readers – the book nevertheless seems in general to have remained beneath the radar of the critics and can therefore be termed a real word-of-mouth success. Kyrö (born 1974), a writer and cartoonist, is the author of the wildly popular Mielensäpahoittaja ('Taking umbridge') novels, about an 80-year-old curmudgeon who grumbles about practically everything. His new book – a story about a man and his rabbit, a satire of contemporary Finland – seems to found a warm welcome in Britain. Stephen Chan dissects its charm
Tuomas Kyrö: The Beggar & The Hare
(translated by David McDuff. London: Short Books, 2011)
Kerjäläinen ja jänis (Helsinki: Siltala, 2011)
For someone who is not Finnish, but who has had a love affair with the country – not its beauties but its idiosyncratic masochisms; its melancholia and its perpetual silences; its concocted mythologies and histories; its one great composer, Sibelius, and its one great architect, Aalto; and the fact that Sibelius's Finlandia, written for a country of snow and frozen lakes, should become the national anthem of the doomed state of Biafra, with thousands of doomed soldiers marching to its strains under the African sun – this book and its idiots and idiocies seemed to sum up everything about a country that can be profoundly moving, and profoundly stupid.
It's an idiot book; its closest cousin is Voltaire's Candide (1759). But, whereas Candide was both a comedic satire and a critique of the German philosopher and mathematician Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz (1646-1716), The Beggar & The Hare is merely an insider's self-satire. Someone who has not spent time in Finland would have no idea how to imagine the events of this book. Candide, too, deployed a foil for its eponymous hero, and that was Pangloss, the philosopher Leibniz himself in thin disguise. Together they traverse alien geographies and cultures, each given dimension by the other. More…
Archives open!
12 December 2014 | This 'n' that
Illustration: Hannu Konttinen
For 41 years, from 1967 to 2008, Books from Finland was a printed journal. In 1976, after a decade of existence as not much more than a pamphlet, it began to expand: with more editorial staff and more pages, hundreds of Finnish books and authors were featured in the following decades.
Those texts remain archive treasures.
In 1998 Books from Finland went online, partially: we set up a website of our own, offering a few samples of text from each printed issue. In January 2009 Books from Finland became an online journal in its entirety, now accessible to everyone.
We then decided that we would digitise material from the printed volumes of 1976 to 2008: samples of fiction and related interviews, reviews, and articles should become part of the new website.
The process took a couple of years – thank you, diligent Finnish Literature Exchange (FILI) interns (and Johanna Sillanpää) : Claire Saint-Germain, Bruna di Pastena, Merethe Kristiansen, Franziska Fiebig, Saara Wille and Claire Dickenson! – and now it's time to start publishing the results. We're going to do so volume by volume, going backwards.
The first to go online was the fiction published in 2008: among the authors are the poets Tomi Kontio and Rakel Liehu and prose writers Helvi Hämäläinen (1907–1998), Sirpa Kähkönen, Maritta Lintunen, Arne Nevanlinna, Hagar Olsson (1893–1979), Juhani Peltonen (1941–1998) and Mika Waltari (1908–1979).
To introduce these new texts, we will feature a box on our website, entitled New from the archives, where links will take you to the new material. The digitised texts work in the same way as the rest of the posts, using the website's search engine (although for technical reasons we have been unable to include all the original pictures).
By the time we reach the year 1976, there will be texts by more than 400 fiction authors on our website. We are proud and delighted that the printed treasures of past decades – the best of the Finnish literature published over the period – will be available to all readers of Books from Finland.
The small world of Finnish fiction will be even more accessible to the great English-speaking universe. Read on!
And the winner is… Finlandia Prize for Fiction 2014
27 November 2014 | In the news
Jussi Valtonen. Photo: Markko Taina
The winner of the prize this year, worth €30,000 and awarded on 27 November, is He eivät tiedä mitä he tekevät ('For they know not what they do', Tammi) by Jussi Valtonen (born 1974), a psychologist and writer. The novel – 558 pages – is his third: it focuses on the relationship of science and ethics in the contemporary world, with an American professor of neuroscience, married to a Finn, as the protagonist.
Professor Anne Brunila – who has worked, among other posts, as a CEO in forest and energy industry – chose the winner. In her awarding speech she said: 'The novel is an astonishing combination of perceptive description of human relationships, profound moral and ethical reasoning, science fiction and suspense…. I have never encountered a Finnish portrayal of our present era that is anything like it.'
The other five novels on the shortlist of six were the following:
Kaksi viatonta päivää ('Two innocent days', Gummerus) by Heidi Jaatinen is a story of a child whose parents are not able to take care of her; Olli Jalonen's Miehiä ja ihmisiä ('Men and human beings', Otava) focuses on a young man's summer in the 1970s. Neljäntienristeys ('The crossing of four roads', WSOY), a first novel by Tommi Kinnunen, is a story set in the 20th-century Finnish countryside over three generations. Kultarinta ('Goldbreast', Gummerus) by Anni Kytömäki is a first novel about generations, set in the years between 1903 and 1937, celebrating the Finnish forest and untouched nature. Graniittimies ('Granite man', Otava) by Sirpa Kähkönen portrays a young, idealistic Finnish couple who move to the newly-founded Soviet Union to work in the utopia they believe in.
A long list of good novels
The longlist for the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award 2015 has been announced and, among the 142 translated novels – from 39 countries and 16 original languages – are two from Finland.
Mr Darwin's Gardener by Kristina Carlson (Peirene Press, UK, 2012), a novel set in the 1860s England, is translated by Emily and Fleur Jeremiah (see the extracts in Books from Finland).
Cold Courage, a thriller by Pekka Hiltunen (Hesperus Press, UK), is translated by Owen Witesman. Both entries were nominated by Helsinki City Library.
Among the authors writing in English are Margaret Atwood, J.M. Coetzee, Roddy Doyle, Stephen King, Jhumpa Lahiri, Thomas Pynchon and Donna Tartt.
This literary award was established by Dublin City, Civic Charter in 1994. Nominations are made by libraries in capital and major cities throughout the world, on the basis of 'high literary merit'. In order to be eligible for consideration in 2015 a novel translated into English must be first published in the original language between 1 January 2009 and 31 December 2013.
The award for a translated novel is worth €75,000 to the author, €25,000 to the translator. The shortlist of ten titles will be announced by an international panel of judges in April 2015, the winner in June.
We'll be keeping our fingers crossed for our ex-Editor-in-Chief Kristina Carlson!
Mervi Kantokorpi
Finding a voice
13 November 2014 | Authors, Reviews
Pajtim Statovci. Photo: Tommi Tuomi
Here it is, finally: Pajtim Statovci's debut novel is the first book of literary merit written in Finnish by an author who originally came to Finland from the former Yugoslavia, Kosovo. Kissani Jugoslavia ('Yugoslavia, my cat', Otava, 2014) is a wild depiction of identity, told simultaneously from the perspectives of the mother of an immigrant family and her son. Statovci builds a keen sense of tension between the narrative of the Albanian woman and that of her youngest son.
Born in Podujevë, Kosovo, in 1990, Statovci came to Finland at the age of two. He is studying comparative literature at the University of Helsinki and film and television scriptwriting at the Aalto University. The French and Norwegian translation rights to Kissani Jugoslavia were sold before the book had even been published. More…
13 November 2014 | Fiction, Prose
Extracts from the novel Kissani Jugoslavia ('Yugoslavia, my cat', Otava 2014). Introduction by Mervi Kantokorpi
I met the cat in a bar. And he wasn't just any cat, the kind of cat that likes toy mice or climbing trees or feather dusters, not at all, but entirely different from any cat I'd ever met.
I noticed the cat across the dance floor, somewhere between two bar counters and behind a couple of turned backs. He loped contentedly from one place to the other, chatting to acquaintances in order to maintain a smooth, balanced social life. I had never seen anything so enchanting, so alluring. He was a perfect cat with black-and-white stripes. His soft fur gleamed in the dim lights of the bar as though it had just been greased, and he was standing, firm and upright, on his two muscular back paws.
Then the cat noticed me; he started smiling at me and I started smiling at him, and then he raised his front paw to the top button of his shirt, unbuttoned it and began walking towards me. More…
In the shadow of the cathedral
6 November 2014 | Authors, Reviews
Satu Taskinen. Photo: Heini Lehväslaiho
In recent years the Finnish novel has been refreshed by central European tones in the work of authors including Kristina Carlson, Katri Lipson and Sofi Oksanen. Among these reforming powers is Satu Taskinen, whose first novel, Täydellinen paisti ('The perfect roast', 2011), won the Helsingin Sanomat prize for a debut work.
The novel, set over a day and describing a Viennese family's All Saints' Day lunch and, in particular, its demanding preparations, aroused admiration, but also wonderment at its slow, thoughtful monologue, in which absurdist humour and irony mixed with a melancholy atmosphere.
Satu Taskinen, who studied philosophy and German philology at Helsinki University, has lived and worked in Vienna for a long time. Her second novel, Katedraali ('The cathedral'), is also a one-day novel describing a Viennese family. More…
Satu Taskinen
The day of mourning
6 November 2014 | Fiction, Prose
Extracts from the novel Katedraali ('The cathedral', Teos, 2014). Introduction by Mervi Kantokorpi
I am here now, at this funeral; I'm sitting on a puffy rococo chair which stands in the corner of this large living room – hall – on a Berber rug, one of a series of four pieces of furniture. The fourth is a curly-legged table, painted matt white. I wriggle like anything, trying to rid myself of my too-tight shoes. Fish thrash their tails in the same way. The lady in the dry cleaner's told me she hates fish. She said that clothes that smell of fish and are brought into her shop make her shake with loathing but also bring her satisfaction because she can wash the awful stench away.
My shoes are impossibly small. They pinch my feet worse every moment. My back aches, too, despite the painkillers. You can't swallow pills forever, so I just try to find a better position and put up with it. Finally my shoes leave my feet. I kick them underneath the table so that they can't be seen. I can breathe again. In my shoes I felt as if I were sinking under the ground.
My father once showed me the Stephansdom catacombs. Thousands of people were buried here, before that, too, was forbidden by someone, he said. More…
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Hackers takeover Super Junior Donghae's Instagram and unfollow 2NE1 Sandara Park
Irritated by a hacker sneaking onto and messing with his Instagram account, Super Junior member Donghae posted a message on the account to deter anyone from hacking his account in the future.
The singer posted a picture of a dark room on his Instagram account on April 2nd but the main message of the post was in his caption and wrote, "Don't get hacked!!!!"
The singer recently had his account compromised, and although the hacker did not do anything malicious to his account, the hacker did unfollow several people, including 2NE1's Dara.
With over 2 million followers on Instagram, Donghae definitely has a lot of fans, who supported him in his message against hackers. Hopefully, the hacker has read Donghae's message and will stop trying to access the singer's account.
해킹하지마세요 !!!!
A photo posted by Super Junior , Haru Oneday (@leedonghae) on Apr 2, 2015 at 4:14am PDT

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James Boggs 100th – Celebration
People & Contact
Grace Lee Boggs
Jimmy Boggs Reader
Shea Howell
Living For Change
Thinking For Ourselves
Organizing for Change
Category: Thinking For Ourselves
April 30, 2016	Shea Howell, Thinking For Ourselves
Distorted Story
By Shea Howell
We are beginning the third year of the crisis in Flint. In spite of thousands of news articles, visits by politicians, apologies, and claims of relentless positive action, little has changed in the daily lives of the people. Water is still unsafe. Filters, touted as a cure all, have been operating for so long many are approaching fatigue. They require constant flushing. Many need to be replaced. Every day most people still organize their lives around water safety. They cannot simply turn on their tap to bush teeth, bath, cook or wash. This week volunteers from Detroit will again go to Flint to deliver bottles of water, talk with residences, and explore how to advance political pressure to mobilize a will to act.
Meanwhile Governor Snyder continues his public relations stunts. Making a show of drinking filtered Flint water, he quickly departed for Europe. He didn't take his water with him. And while crisis experts are making his name synonymous with ineptness and disaster, he and the powers that support him are scrambling to protect emergency managers.
The new corporate story line is clear. Emergency Managers work. Flint was an anomaly. The EMs should have listened more. Emergency Manager Orr saved Detroit.
The effort put into this gross distortion is a measure of how important Emergency Manager laws are to corporate interests. They regard Emergency Managers as the single most important tool to further privatize public responsibilities and put a price tag on what should be a common birthright for all. Emergency managers are the key to undercutting basic democratic values that challenge the idea that private profit is more important than the public good.
Recently the Brookings Institute offered a platform for this distorted story. They hosted a discussion on the "new Detroit." Entitled "How philanthropy, business, and government sparked Detroit's resurgence," Brookings pushed a new business climate survey from the Kresge Foundation. Panelist included Sandy Baruah of the Detroit Regional Chamber and Stephen Henderson of almost all Detroit media. Rip Rapson of Kresge moderated.
It was a disquietingly blind and distorted discussion. It is astonishing how the basic questions of who benefits from this "resurgence" and who is suffering in its wake were completely avoided. The reality that bankruptcy meant the destruction of pensions for thousands of elder Detroiters, greatly diminishing their daily quality of life, was not mentioned. The horrific policy of aggressive water shut offs to nearly half the city did not spark a comment, even as we are facing another round of these shut offs next week. The abuse of our children in a school system that has been willfully dismantled was reduced to concerns for personal corruption, not a colossal system failure.
In the compartmentalized world of corporate America, cities surge while the majority of the people suffer. We should expect to hear this version of reality again and again as the corporate elite prepare for the annual visit to Mackinac Island. They are into damage control. We should expect an onslaught of stories about how much the bankruptcy has helped Detroit.
In the face of such lies, it is up to the rest of us to do the serious work of advancing visionary ideas to rebuild Detroit. We cannot expect the corporate powers to shape a future based on compassion or care for one another and our earth.
No Excuses By Shea Howell
This week headlines warned that the crisis of water in Michigan is far from solved. More than one third of Detroit elementary schools reported unsafe levels of lead and copper in their drinking water.
Officials believe the problem rests with old lead pipes, not the quality of the water.
Still Dr. Abdul El-Sayed, executive director and health officer for the city of Detroit's Health Department, said that all Detroit children under 6, regardless of whether they attend a DPS school, should be screened for lead.
These reports were followed by an announcement that Henry Ford Hospital advised patients and employees to drink bottled water after water flowing from their pipes started coming out brown. The problem was attributed to a construction issue with the M-1 rail line, not water quality in general. "No patient services are affected and all hospital operations are fully operational. We are using sterilized water for all procedures," hospital officials said.
The immediate alarm raised by these situations speaks clearly to how concerned most people are about access to affordable, safe water. For many children in Detroit, the schools are their only source of fresh water. Thousands of households are still unable to get their water turned on and the Mayor is announcing another round of aggressive shut offs this spring. Drinking water and school showers are now no longer available to children who have been counting on these resources.
While Henry Ford acted quickly and responsibly, the fact that the problem was discovered by turning on the tap, not by those doing the construction, raises serious questions about decision making and overall understanding of how fragile our water system is.
This fragility goes beyond the pipes. The Oakland Press ran a little noticed report by Ron Seigel raising concerns about the quality of Detroit Water. The Michigan Department of Environmental Quality raised serious questions about how layoffs of personnel effects the safety of water and sewerage treatment. MDEQ is concerned that layoffs made last October by both Detroit and the new Great Lakes Water Authority mean that the plant is operating with fewer people that required by state law and specified in a consent agreement made years ago.
The violation notice sent to DWSD and GLWA charged that they had failed to provide "adequate documentation" for the MDEQ to determine whether there is enough staff to "properly operate and maintain the Waste Water Treatment Plant and the Combined Sewage Overflow Facilities in the Detroit Water System."
The local union, which has trying to get attention on this issue said simply, "Action must be taken before another disaster is allowed to happen."
Susan Ryan, the union president, said: "We have been very fortunate so far that nothing has happened but we are concerned about what is happening in the waste water treatment plant. There are not enough staffers to assure water quality and keep sewage from our basements."
One hundred and thirty seven people were dismissed, including senior sewer plant operators, water system control instrument technicians and mechanics with special expertise in repair and operations of equipment.
The crisis in Flint happened because unelected officials acted with depraved indifference. Detroit elected officials, especially the City Council, needs to demand a full accounting of what is going in with our the Detroit Water and Sewerage Department. They have no excuse.
April 4, 2016	Shea Howell, Thinking For Ourselves
The Legacy of Grace Lee Boggs: "Re-imagine Everything" Jan Thomas – SoulandMeaning.com
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The Legacy of Grace Lee Boggs: "Re-imagine Everything"
On March 20, 2016 a celebration of Grace Lee Boggs' 100-year life was held at the Oakland Asian Cultural Center. The memorial speakers offered memorable social change stories and lessons learned from knowing her over the years. Here is a small sampling of what was shared, followed by my full notes.
1. We remake ourselves to remake the world.
2. What do I need to change in myself to be more effective in changing the world?
3. What does it mean to "grow our souls"?
4. Praxis is about changing our minds and our perspectives in response to changing conditions.
5. Questions are more important than answers.
6. Go beyond simply complaining and waiting for others to change it or fix it.
7. Seek out like-hearted people who are weaving the sacred hoop of humanity back together.
8. Put less energy into stopping the bad and more energy into creating the new.
9. Balance action with reflection, and tune into heart as well as head and hands.
10. Create spaces that pre-figure or model the change we want to create.
11. We can't change the times that we live in, but we can change how we live in these times.
12. Combine a sense of urgency with patience.
13. We are the end of one epoch and the beginning of another.
14. Reimagine everything. Live in the new ways. Evolve to a higher humanity.
15. It is up to us to envision and create a world beyond our wildest dreams.
My journal notes from the memorial:
To learn more about Grace's life of social change, view the documentary film American Revolutionary: The Evolution of Grace Lee Boggs.
A trailer for the film is here.
Two of my previous posts have selected quotes by Grace:
Grace Lee Boggs, Social Change Evolutionary
Grace Lee Boggs Sees a Looming "Great Sea Change"
I took the photo of Grace in 2014 at a showing of American Revolutionary at the Castro Theater in San Francisco, on what turned out to be her last West Coast trip.
March 27, 2016	Shea Howell, Thinking For Ourselves
Establishing justice By Shea Howell
Establishing justice
This week the Flint Water Crisis Task Force released its final report. The report makes critical contributions to the public discussion of what happened in Flint, where the responsibility rests, and what should be done about it. Most importantly, the report makes clear that state authorities treated the people of Flint with contempt, disrespect, and disregard for their health and lives. At the core of the State's actions was deep-seated racism. The report invokes the concept of Environmental Justice, opening important perspectives for us to consider as we decide how to move forward.
The report falls short in calling for the repeal of emergency management legislation. It acknowledges that it was unable to investigate the Karegnondi Water Authority and issues surrounding its creation. However, it cuts through some of the lies Governor Snyder has been pushing to avoid responsibility.
First, the Task Force places blame squarely on the State. In response to the Governor's strategy of blaming everyone, they say, "Though it may be technically true that all levels of government failed, the state's responsibilities should not be deflected. The causes of the crisis lie primarily at the feet of the state by virtue of its agencies' failures and its appointed emergency managers' misjudgments.
Second, the report highlights the role Emergency Mangers played in the key decisions surrounding the water crisis. It emphasizes the consequences of legislation that concentrates power in the hands of a single individual without democratic checks and balances. The Task force concluded, "The Flint water crisis occurred when state-appointed emergency managers replaced local representative decision-making in Flint, removing the checks and balances and public accountability that come with public decision-making. Emergency managers made key decisions that contributed to the crisis, from the use of the Flint River to delays in reconnecting to DWSD once water quality problems were encountered."
Third, the Task Force addresses openly the environmental injustice embedded in the chain of choices made by the Governor and his appointees. As the New York Times commented, the report "makes clear the principal cause of the water crisis in Flint, Mich.: the state government's blatant disregard for the lives and health of poor and black residents of a distressed city."
The Times editorial goes on to say of the report, "While it avoids using the word "racism," it clearly identifies the central role that race and poverty play in this story." This report should be read along with the Principles of Environmental Justice. They offer a standard for us to judge how we are meeting our responsibilities to Flint, to one another and to the earth.
These Principles were crafted at the People of Color Environmental leadership Summit in 1991 "to build a national and international movement of all peoples of color to fight the destruction and taking of our lands and communities," and to "re-establish our spiritual interdependence to the sacredness of our Mother Earth."
Among the 17 principles are these:
Environmental justice demands that public policy be based on mutual respect and justice for all peoples, free from any form of discrimination or bias.
Environmental justice affirms the fundamental right to political, economic, cultural and environmental self-determination of all peoples.
Environmental justice demands the right to participate as equal partners at every level of decision-making including needs assessment, planning, implementation, enforcement and evaluation.
Environmental justice protects the right of victims of environmental injustice to receive full compensation and reparations for damages as well as quality health care.
Environmental justice considers governmental acts of environmental injustice a violation of international law, the Universal Declaration On Human Rights, and the United Nations Convention on Genocide.
Environmental justice calls for the education of present and future generations which emphasizes social and environmental issues, based on our experience and an appreciation of our diverse cultural perspectives.
Governor Snyder, his appointed administrators, and the State Legislature violated these core principles. We have a long way to go to establish justice.
Diminished capacity By Shea Howell
March 22, 016
On the eve of World Water Day, Governor Rick Snyder released his new "action plan designed to ensure Flint's recovery and strong future." The banner heading of the plan repeats Snyder's slogan "Getting it right. Getting it done."
Designed by public relations experts and vetted by lawyers, the plan is intended to show everyone that Snyder is continuing his positive, relentless action. It is also designed to focus attention away from the causes of the catastrophe in Flint and to shift the blame to federal levels.
This plan reflects the moral failures of Governor Snyder, his administration and all those who support him. Ever since he was forced to acknowledge a crisis in Flint, Governor Snyder has failed to understand the human consequences of his own arrogance and indifference. He has half stepped, tried to deflect blame, accused others of failures, distorted his own role, and been reluctant to release all information necessary to uncover the full degree of complicity, complacency and duplicity in this disaster. His latest plan reflects a complete lack of simple human empathy, a diminished capacity for understanding.
Snyder's distorted view of this human tragedy is expressed in his first point. It reads "Children under 6 with high blood lead levels offered professional support and case management."
Let us be clear. Every child in Flint has been traumatized by what has happened to their community. Every adult has been traumatized. Every animal, plant, garden, building, road, school, and sidewalk has been poisoned and carries the scars of this tragedy. Every bone in every body for now and future generations will carry some measure of the terrors and pain people have endured.
Governor Snyder sees none of this. He chooses to say some children, who test at some level, for one substance, will be "offered" support.
This kind of small spirited and weak minded response is exactly why Snyder should resign. It is why the Federal Government needs to declare a Public Health Emergency in Flint. It is why we need to support Mayor Weaver and the local activists who are calling for broad support and a truly comprehensive response to the crisis they face.
While Snyder's pathetic attempt to respond works its way through the media, activists and community members gathered to support efforts by the State legislators to advance a package of bills designed to insure water is a human right in Michigan and make our water, safe, affordable and accessible to all. The Republican Committee Chairperson, Lee Chatfield, is keeping this package of 11 bills from a public hearing.
Moving these bills toward law is a crucial step. But equally important is moving to remove Emergency Management legislation. Even Governor Snyder conceded that "it would be a fair conclusion" to say that Michigan's emergency manger law failed in Flint.
It is time we act out of fairness and love for one another. Small steps, with even more narrowly devised guidelines designed to save money diminish us all.
Here is the contact information for Representative Lee Chatfield:
S-1486 House Office Building
Email: LeeChatfield@house.mi.gov
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Maladroit – czwarty album zespołu Weezer. Proces jego produkcji był wyjątkowy, ponieważ zespół udostępniał poprzez swoją oficjalną stronę pliki z nowymi nagraniami ze studia i koncertów, prosząc fanów o opinię. Rivers Cuomo (jako Ace) i historyk zespołu Karl Koch brali aktywny udział w dyskusjach z fanami na forach internetowych odnośnie do zespołu oraz wymieniali maile. Fani byli odpowiedzialni za przywrócenie takich piosenek jak "Slob" i "Dope Nose", które zespół grał na koncertach w roku 2000. Zespół korzystał też z ich sugestii odnośnie do aranżacji. Taka wymiana zdań prowadziła do wielu kontrowersji, czego wyraz można znaleźć w tekstach do "American Gigolo" i "Space Rock". Rivers posunął się nawet do tego, że obrażał fanów w jednym z wywiadów. Ostatecznie utwory do albumu wybrał menadżer zespołu. Mimo porażki eksperymentu z interaktywnym nagrywaniem albumu, zespół umieścił na książeczce dołączonej do płyty podziękowania dla osób biorących aktywny udział w internetowej dyskusji. Tytuł albumu został wymyślony przez jedną z fanek. Jest to pierwsza płyta ze Scottem Shrinerem na basie, który gra na wszystkich kolejnych albumach zespołu.

Lista utworów
Wszystkie utwory napisane przez Riversa Cuomo.
 "American Gigolo"– 2:42
 "Dope Nose"– 2:17
 "Keep Fishin'"– 2:52
 "Take Control"– 3:05
 "Death and Destruction" – 2:38
 "Slob"– 3:09
 "Burndt Jamb"– 2:39
 "Space Rock"– 1:53
 "Slave"– 2:53
 "Fall Together"– 2:02
 "Possibilities"– 2:00
 "Love Explosion"– 2:35
 "December" – 2:59

Wykonawcy
 Rivers Cuomo: śpiew, gitary, klawisze
 Brian Bell: chórki, gitary
 Scott Shriner: gitara basowa, chórki
 Patrick Wilson: perkusja, chórki

Single
 "Dope Nose" (2002)
 "Keep Fishin'" (2002)
 "Slob" (2002) – ostatecznie anulowany

Albumy muzyczne wydane w roku 2002
Albumy Weezer

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With Keratoconus in my left eye, I had pseudo-3d vision. My right eye was doing the lions share of sharp vision, while my left eye was trying hard to give a blurry depth to it all. But for the most part, I was monocular.
When my wife, kids and I had popped in to a "Bug's Life in 3D" movie at Disney around 10 years ago, I could not see the effects. I had since looked at a 3d movie or two on TV and still, nothing.
But since my surgery, I'm fully binocular. So my wife and I decided to go see "Gravity" in 3D last night. You might say it's the first 3D movie I've seen since, well, ever. It was a lot of fun to wear the glasses and see the various objects spinning outside the screen. The movie was pretty good (I got hung up on how Sandra Bullocks' escape pod was pointing in the right direction when she fired the thrusters and other physics problems) and I enjoyed the evening with my wife.
I look forward to seeing the new Hobbit movie or other 3d movies soon.


Apple has ordered as much as twelve petabyes (12PB equals to 12,000TB) of capacity storage "Isilon OneFS 6.5 NDMP Solution Isilon OneFS 6.5.x" from Isilon Systems, the Seattle, Washington-based maker of clustered storage solutions company with more than 1,500 clients, notably to manage the video download of its customers using iTunes, according to an inside source of the new division of EMC.
Isilon OneFS delivers industry leading NDMP backup performance to Isilon Scale-out storage systems integrated with IBM Tivoli Storage Manager. Support includes NDMP v3, v4, DAR, DDAR and more.
On April 11, Isilon will launch a new line of hardware and software. But IBM has not respected the embargo and has revealed the enhanced Isilon OneFS 6.5 operating system – integrated with Tivoli Storage Manager – on its web site.
Already several journalists have been briefed under embargo on the new releases and we will publish a deep analysis on the subject next week.
Gmail Rolls Out Several Small Tweaks Including 'Auto-save Contacts, Better Warning for Typos' and More!


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import { connect } from 'react-redux';
import { FormattedMessage, injectIntl } from 'react-intl';
import { createStructuredSelector } from 'reselect';
import { makeSelectAllTags } from 'containers/App/selectors';
import { push } from 'react-router-redux';

import ContentBlock from 'components/ContentBlock';
import LanguageThemeProvider from 'components/LanguageThemeProvider';

import MenuBlock from 'components/MenuBlock';
import MenuTitle from 'components/MenuTitle';
import MenuList from 'components/MenuList';
import MenuListItem from 'components/MenuListItem';
import Link from 'components/Link';
import ClearButton from 'components/ClearButton';

import {slugify} from 'utils/tags'

import makeSelectTags from './selectors';
import messages from './messages';

import styled from 'styled-components';

const TagBlock = styled(ContentBlock)`
  text-align: ${props=>props.align || 'center'}`
;
const TagList = styled.ul`
  margin: 0;
  padding: 0;
  margin-top: 12px;
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const TagListItem = styled.li`
  display: inline;
  vertical-align: middle;
  &:last-child {
    span { display: none; }
  }
  font-family: Avenir, Kaff;
  font-weight: ${p=>p.selected ? 800 : 400 };

  * { vertical-align: middle; }
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    font-weight: 800; font-family: 'Avenir', 'Kaff';
  }

  a {
    text-decoration: ${props=>props.selected ? 'normal' : 'underline'};
    color: ${props=>props.selected ? 'black' : '#828486'};
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const TagLink = styled(Link)`
  vertical-align: middle;
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const TagDivider = styled(() => (<span> / </span>))`
  vertical-align: middle;
  display: inline-block;
`;

const ClearButtonContainer = styled.div`
  text-align: center;
  padding-top: 20px;
  color: #828486;
  button {
    padding-right: 0;
    padding-left: 0;
  }
`;
export class Tags extends React.PureComponent { // eslint-disable-line react/prefer-stateless-function

  handleClearTags() {
    this.props.dispatch(push('/'));
  }

  renderClearButton() {
    const selected = this.props.params ? this.props.params.label : '';
    if (!selected || selected === undefined) return null;

    return (
      <ClearButtonContainer>
        <ClearButton onClick={this.handleClearTags.bind(this)}>
          <FormattedMessage {...messages.clearTags} />
        </ClearButton>
      </ClearButtonContainer>
    );

  }
  render() {
    const selected = this.props.params ? this.props.params.label : '';
    const { locale } = this.props.intl;
    return (
      <LanguageThemeProvider>
        <TagBlock align={this.props.align}>
          <TagList>
            {this.props.tags.map((item) => (
              <TagListItem ar={locale==='ar'} key={item.key} selected={item.key===selected}>
                <TagLink to={`/tag/${item.key}`}>{item.value}</TagLink>
                <TagDivider />
              </TagListItem>
            ))}
          </TagList>
          { this.props.showClear ? this.renderClearButton() : null }
        </TagBlock>
      </LanguageThemeProvider>
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}

Tags.propTypes = {
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  // tags: PropTypes.array.isRequired
  //   tags: PropTypes.array.isRequired,
  // },
};

const mapStateToProps = (state, props) => {
  return {
    tags: makeSelectAllTags(state, props)
  }
};

function mapDispatchToProps(dispatch) {
  return {
    dispatch,
  };
}

// export default connect(mapStateToProps, mapDispatchToProps)(Tags);
export default connect(mapStateToProps, mapDispatchToProps)(injectIntl(Tags));

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When Gertrude met Susan: A Lesbian Literary Love Fest comes to San Francisco on June 24th.
Conceived and hosted by Brooklyn-based performer, writer and professor, Kay Turner, 'When Gertrude Met Susan' is a featured event at this year's International Queer Arts Festival.
E: I'm excited about your upcoming event. Tell us about the show and what makes it so unique and interesting.
Kay: It's a fun show that brings two lesbian icons together, who in actuality never did meet. Both were of course famous writers to the world, but like the rest of us they had girlfriends!! They had much love and sometimes…not so much. But both Gertrude and Susan wrote brilliantly about their lesbian dramas! The goal of this game-like show on Tuesday, June 24 is to choose by voting who writes the best about lesbian love.In the show we have a total of 12 Gerts and 12 Susans–twenty-four impersonators each bringing a different take on a reading from either Sontag's journal or Stein's love notes to Alice. Then at the end we take an audience vote–we encourage Gertrude and Susan fans to take a stand!
E: As a lesbian feminist scholar and author, you're known for outstanding work that links the past to the present, connecting folklore through performance art and literature. This has now become an important part of preserving and creating our queer culture. Tell us, how did you happen to get involved with all this?
E: You've written several great books. Can you give us a rundown on some of your favorites and what they are about?
Kay: Well, I guess the most important of my books for this show I'm doing for Queer Arts Festival is Baby Precious Always Shines, my edited collection of love notes written between Stein and Toklas over a period of 30 years. The Gertrudes in the show are using that book as text. My folklore training and feminist commitment give me a particular view on the importance of women's everyday customs and rituals, so I have done lots of writing about women's home altars, including my book Beautiful Necessity: The Art and Meaning of Women's Altars. I remain a fervent fan of Madonna whose stardom gave me and other women an interesting nocturnal relationship to her which I recorded 20 years ago in my book I Dream of Madonna: Women's Dreams of the Goddess of Pop.
E: What's next for Kay Turner?
Kay: I have a musical side–some of your readers may remember my band Girls in the Nose— and last year I did a show at Dixon Place in New York called Otherwise: Queer Scholarship into Song. That project is continuing in workshops at universities and colleges. Also some years ago I began a project called Transgressive Tales aimed at queerly interpreting the classic Grimms' fairy tales. That project resulted in my latest book Transgressive Tales ( Wayne State University Press, 2012) done with my great pal Pauline Greenhill. That project renewed my interest in the witch! I'm now working on a new book that reconsiders fairy tale witches, hags and sorceresses–in other words, old women! And of course there's an interactive side to this work. Beginning in the fall of 2014 I'll be hosting Witch Salons with women across the country to read and interpret fairy tales together. I hope to return to the Bay Area in early 2015 to host some salons here.
(February 2010), 'Extraordinary Rendition,' Hamilton College Art Department (April 2009), and 'Creating Queer Genealogies: The Spinster Aunt Project,' ( with Ella Gant), Denniston Hill (September 2009). Turner has written songs and performed in numerous bands, most notably the punk lezzie 'Girls in the Nose' (GITN), active 1985-1996 in Austin, TX and the Brooklyn-based rock intellectual trio "The Pages" she works with currently.


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I'm writing this just as I leave Elinor's workshop on playwriting, and I feel all pumped up to get writing. Given the aim of the workshop, I'd say it was a success.
It was a super informal session. Elinor threw exercises at us, making us write in response to art, music, people on the tube, and newspaper articles. It may have started at 10am on a Saturday but we were all buzzing with ideas and chatter just a few minutes in.
I've learned that the scary blank page doesn't need to be scary at all, with the right stimulus. And that that stimulus is all around us. Playwrights as "noticers" is a notion Elinor has introduced me to, and I feel excited to take that out into the melee of Portobello Market this afternoon.
What's more, I was thrilled by my fellow workshop-attendees. Rogues gallery attached. Everyone naturally created a friendly, safe space for ideas and stories. Professional theatre-makers, a first time playwright, and a drama teacher - I'm thankful to them all for coming together and making things up, fueled by Elinor's inspiration and the Gate's tea. I hope we'll all meet again soon.
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Description : Neural stem cells are the multipotent stem cells that generate nerve cells. However, since the early 1990s, neural stem cells have been isolated from the adult brain as well as fetal brain tissues. Stem cells in the adult brain are found in the areas called the subventricular zone and the ventricle zone. Another location of brain stem cells occurs in the hippocampus, a special structure of the cerebral cortex related to memory function. Stem cells isolated from these areas are able to divide and to give rise to nerve cells and neuron-supporting cell types in culture.


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Purepoint Uranium Closes First Tranche of Private Placement
Toronto, Ontario–(Newsfile Corp. – December 15, 2021) – Purepoint Uranium Group Inc. (TSXV: PTU) (OTCQB: PTUUF) ("Purepoint" or the "Company") today announced the closing of the first tranche of a non-brokered private placement (the "Private Placement") of 9,393,943 flow-through units (the "Flow-Through Units") at a price of $0.14 per unit for aggregate gross proceeds of $1,315,012.02. Each Flow-Through Unit consists of one common share in the capital of the Company to be issued on a "flow through" basis pursuant to the Income Tax Act (Canada) and one-half of one common share purchase warrant. Each warrant entitles its holder to purchase one common share in the capital of the Company at an exercise price of $0.20 per share for a period of 24 months from the date of issue. The closing is subject to final acceptance by TSX Venture Exchange of the Private Placement.
In connection with the closing of the private placement, the Company paid certain finders' fees consisting of, in aggregate, $75,000.72 in cash and 535,719 non-transferable compensation warrants. Each compensation warrant entitles its holder to purchase one common share in the capital of the Company at an exercise price of $0.20 per share for a period of 24 months after the date of issue.
The net proceeds of the Private Placement will be used to advance the Company's exploration program in Saskatchewan. All securities issued in connection with the first tranche closing of the Private Placement are subject to a four-month hold period pursuant to the applicable securities laws with an expiry date of March 15, 2022.
About Purepoint
Purepoint Uranium Group Inc. (TSXV: PTU) (OTCQB: PTUUF) actively operates an exploration pipeline of 12 advanced projects in Canada's Athabasca Basin. In addition to its flagship joint venture project at Hook Lake with partners Cameco and Orano and a second joint venture with Cameco at Smart Lake, Purepoint also holds ten, 100% owned projects with proven uranium rich targets. With an aggressive exploration program underway on multiple projects, Purepoint is emerging as the preeminent uranium explorer in the world's richest uranium district.
Chris Frostad, President & CEO
For additional information please visit our new website at https://purepoint.ca, our Twitter feed: @PurepointU3O8 or our LinkedIn page @Purepoint-Uranium.
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Disclosure regarding forward-looking statements
This press release contains projections and forward-looking information that involve various risks and uncertainties regarding future events. Such forward-looking information can include without limitation statements based on current expectations involving a number of risks and uncertainties and are not guarantees of future performance of the Company. These risks and uncertainties could cause actual results and the Company's plans and objectives to differ materially from those expressed in the forward-looking information. Actual results and future events could differ materially from those anticipated in such information. These and all subsequent written and oral forward-looking information are based on estimates and opinions of management on the dates they are made and expressly qualified in their entirety by this notice.


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Florida Citrus Industry Is Facing An Existential Threat From Bacteria, But A Virus Offers Hope
Orange Juice (Image by AlbanyColley, Pixabay)
(This article was originally posted on Forbes on 4/30/19) When I was growing up in the early 1970s there was a ubiquitous television ad promoting Florida orange juice including the line, "a day without orange juice is like a day without sunshine." That "dark day" could be approaching soon, at least in terms of the juices we get from the "Sunshine State" and the livelihood of the farmers who grow the trees that have long supplied us.
The iconic orange juice industry in Florida is facing an existential threat because of a severe bacterial disease of citrus that was introduced to the US from Asia in 2005 (the Asian Citrus Psyllid insect that helps to spread it was first found in Floria in 1998). A Florida homeowner may have inadvertently introduced the bacterium to the US in citrus budwood he brought home from Asia to graft onto his backyard trees. The malady is often called "Citrus Greening," but in Asia it is known as Hualongbong and so we now tend to call it HLB. HLB has since spread to virtually all the back yard and commercial citrus trees in Florida, killing many of the trees and forcing the growers to struggle to keep the remaining ones alive with intensive nutrient feeding and other stop-gap measures.
Oranges showing symptoms of "Greening" or HLB (USDA image)
In 2013 journalist Amy Harmon wrote an excellent article for the New York Times about the history of this crisis titled: "The Race To Save The Orange By Altering Its DNA." She described in detail how this long-anticipated threat finally materialized and how the Florida growers funded university research to explore possible solutions including genetic engineering. A biotech solution was identified using some defensive peptides that are naturally made by spinach plants, but as Harmon explained, that sort of "GMO" solution was a hard sell to the big, brand-sensitive juice companies who buy the oranges. I have been personally disappointed to watch the way that the juice companies have acquiesced to the pressure to use a "non-GMO" label. That unfortunate marketing ploy now appears on all the brands including the one company that relies exclusively on Florida fruit as opposed to a mix with imports. This is a classic case of how "control of the food supply" is really the in the hands of anti-technology activist groups, not the big companies most often so accused.
This is my current bottle of FL grapefruit juice, but I have to "hold my nose" when buying in because of the misleading "non-GMO" label (Ruby Red grapefruit was generated using mutagenesis breeding, no a problem but definitely "genetically modified")
But realistically, deploying a biotech trait like this in a perennial crop would be quite slow because the growers would have to start over with new trees or possibly graft onto the existing rootstocks and regrow the entire above ground part of the plant. In the mean time, the industry has been steadily declining and the fear is that it will reach a point where it just isn't worth maintaining the juice plants. Orange juice can certainly be imported, but for a time the Florida industry was able to distinguish itself by its better tasting "not-from-concentrate" advantage.
This same destructive disease now threatens the citrus industries in other states. The disease and its insect vector are already present in California, but for now it has been contained to mostly urban/suburban areas in the southern part of the state. If it spread to something like the tangerine/mandarin groves of the Central Valley and other parts of the $3.4 Billion California citrus industry, that would be a disaster (think Cuties(r), Halos(r), lemons, navel oranges, grapefruit etc.)
From my current bag of mandarins (again sadly with the misleading non-GMO label)
But I'm happy to say that today I'm writing about a newer technological approach to deal with this disease. An extended public comment period ran through Tuesday May 30th in which the USDA asked for feedback on the question of whether or not to approve the commercial deployment of a different way to protect orange trees from the HLB disease. It is something which could possibly be implemented much more quickly than by genetically engineering the trees themselves. This is something that could be presented in a way that would make it sound scary, but its really not.
There is a virus that infects orange trees called Tristezea. It also came from outside the US and began causing problems in all the citrus growing regions of the US in the 1960s. At first it was also a lethal disease, but eventually it was found that by avoiding certain rootstock types, the virus could infect the trees with no symptoms at all. (Virtually all fruit crops have been grown on rootstocks for a centuries). In Florida today all but the youngest trees are infected with Tristeza, but with strains that are benign for trees when they are on the rootstocks now used. The new biotech solution is to add genetic sequences for the spinach antimicrobial peptides to the RNA of the virus, and then get that virus to infect orange trees. This could be done with new trees when they are in nurseries, but it may be possible to also "graft transmit" the virus into at least they younger trees already out in the commercial groves. In this case that new small branch does not need to take over, it just allow the virus+peptides to move into the other parts of the existing trees. In any case, modifying the virus is far more efficient than having to separately engineer and propagate each of the popular citrus varieties in the industry.
A small scale trial that was run for several years confirms that this sort of virus inoculation can make the trees resistant to the HLB pest and to allow full productivity. As part of that experiment, trees with no virus were planted all around these test blocks and then followed to see if the engineered virus ever moved into them (the virus can be transmitted by aphids under certain circumstances). In fact the virus didn't move, though even if it did it wouldn't be a big issue. Also, over time the modified virus loses the genes for the spinach peptides which is then another barrier to any sort of unwanted spread. Also it is clear that the Tristezea virus does not have any bad effects on other crops or wild plants since the virus has been very widespread for decades without causing problems in other species.
I've included the comments that I submitted to the USDA below concluding with my hope that the experience in Florida will pave the way for using a similar approach in California if we ever have to save that industry as well. I sincerely hope that the USDA does approve this new method and I sincerely hope that those who control the juice plants will both help the growers that supply them and trust consumers to be smart enough to listen to the logic about this technology.
This is the Website about the USDA comment process:
This is the link for comments followed by what I submitted:
Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) Notice: Environmental Impact Statements; Availability, etc.: Preliminary PestRisk Assessment for Permit for Release of Genetically Engineered CitrusTristeza Virus
I am writing in support of this release permit as I believe that it is a very logical strategy with the potential to literally save the citrus industry in Florida. If it proves successful it could play a similar role in the unfortunately likely scenario that HLB becomes a more serious threat to citrus production in other regions such as California. I am a plant pathologist with a Ph.D. from the University of California, Davis. My own work there was with fungal diseases, but I spent a lot of time in the lab of Dr. Robert Shepherd, a National Academy virologist. Starting at that time in the late 1970s I had many close colleagues who were working on the early stages of plant genetic engineering and I have continued to follow that field ever since. The progress of the field has been remarkable.
In preparation for this comment I read all the available documents from the USDA site and corresponded with some of the university researchers who have done the relevant work on issues like the potential for recombination and transmission of the modified Tristeza virus.
This approach of using an asymptomatic strain of the virus is particularly logical for this perennial crop. To engineer the orange scion itself would require the generation of separate "events" in each of the important cultivars and then a delay to graft those onto existing trees and bringing that new "top" into bearing. Using the virus makes it far more feasible to utilize more than one combination of antimicrobial peptides which will help to prevent the development of resistance in the HLB bacterial pathogen population.
There are several convincing reasons that this strategy is likely to be safe with regard to any potential for spread to non-target citrus or to other plant species. There is very low rate of aphid transmission even under ideal lab conditions. The track record of zero transmission to sentinel plants in the previous limited release further demonstrates that the modified virus is extremely unlikely to move beyond the intended trees. The fact that recombination will likely lead to loss of the peptide part of the viral genome is another safety factor and will again allow for the deployment of different peptides in a follow-up grafting step if that is needed down the line. The fact that the Tristeza strains to be used are already ubiquitous in Florida citrus represents a multi-decade "experiment" showing that this virus represents no threat to other species or to citrus that is grown on the rootstocks for which infections by these strains are asymptomatic. With the tremendous advances in the speed, sensitivity and affordability of genetic assays, it will be possible to rigorously monitor the efficacy and safety of the strategy. As for the anti-microbial peptides from spinach - long experience supports their safety from a food point of view.
I believe that this release can be the culmination of an exemplary example of an effort funded by the grower community and partnering with the public, academic community to employ state-of-the-art science.
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It has been a little while since Christopher has been at the mic of another discussion with a movie, but he has had to brace himself for something as crappy as Jack and Jill. The record-holder for winning the most Razzies in history (hint: it won all of them) and being probably one of the WORST movies I've ever seen, certainly didn't make for easy watching last night, but as with all bad movies, it is fun to rip into them. Which I'm sure is just what Christopher, the sarcastic, dry piece of witty imagination that he is, will do. If he doesn't want to gouge his eyeballs out, first.
CHRISTOPHER: After going through an entire conversation with Safe House sticking a gun in my face, I think it's high time that I talk to the multi-award winning Jack and Jill. What an honour. So, Jack and Jill, how does it feel to have so many accolades to your name?
JACK AND JILL: It feels GOOD!
C: Why do you feel the need to yell at me in a really high-pitched voice? I'm right next to you.
JAJ: I just want you to realise how dumb you look because you don't have as many awards as me!
C: That's right, I don't.
C: No no, I have no shame. As you can plainly see, I'm a man being a man. You are a man being a woman. And also being a man. Both of which are really silly.
JAJ: Silly?! You don't know the meaning of silly!
C: Oh no, I'm fairly sure I do. If I were to look up the definition of 'silly' in the dictionary I have no doubts that I would find 'Jack and Jill'.
JAJ: No you wouldn't! That's not possible! Al Pacino is one of my stars!
C: And he calls himself 'Dunkaccino' in it.
C: And he pretends to be in love with Adam Sandler dressed as a woman.
JAJ: That is totally fine! I'm all for equality!
C: So that's why you have a whole lot of offensive jokes to spurt out?
C: Nope. They're silly jokes.
JAJ: Your face is a silly joke.
C: That was a silly joke.
JAJ: You're a silly joke.
C: Is that seriously all you can come up with?
JAJ: Nope. I'll tell you a joke. Why did the cookie go to the hospital?
C: I don't know, why did the cookie go to the hospital?
JAJ: Because he felt crummy.
C: Wow. You didn't just get that from Googling 'lame jokes'.
JAJ: That's right, I didn't. But Googling 'lame jokes' is actually really helpful. That's how my script was written.
C: Do you want to hear my joke?
C: How did Jack and Jill wind up with so many awards?
JAJ: Because I'm the best Adam Sandler film EVER?!
C: Because all of the awards it won were Razzies! HA.
C: Thank goodness, I found a way to shut Adam Sandler up. For five minutes.
JAJ: That's My Boy is in cinemas now! Y'all have to go see it because no-one else has!
The number of awful things they've done over the past couple years is just too high to be normal, right?
I'm pretty sure they are. Which is sad!
Because we got 21 copies of it at work so that must mean it is good.
From the moment I read "It feels GOOD!" I knew this was going to be a great post. And it was. Fantastic work, I enjoy watching people rip this film apart. Can't believe I actually saw it in a theatre. That was a fun but depressing evening. Despite the film's awfulness, I maintain the final scene is a work of brilliance, and is almost worth seeing the movie for. Almost.
Haha, I enjoy watching people rip it apart, too. You saw this in theatre? Poor you! And that final scene...good lord.
Haha, well at least you didn't have to pay!


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John Newman Announces 'Tribute' U.K. Album Release Date
Rising U.K. star John Newman has announced that his debut solo album, "Tribute," will be released overseas on Oct. 14.
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Rising U.K. star John Newman has announced that his debut solo album, "Tribute," will be released overseas on Oct. 14.
The Yorkshire-born 23-year-old has already topped the U.K. singles chart, first as a featured performer on Rudimental's "Feel The Love" and then with his vibrant solo single "Love Me Again," which debuted in the top spot in July. "Love Me Again" has sold 22,000 downloads to date in the U.S., according to Nielsen SoundScan, and while follow-up single, "Cheating," has yet to hit the States, its official music vidoe has garnered 1.6 million VEVO views since launching on Aug. 22.
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"This album… it's going to be quite hard for me to listen to," Newman told Billboard in July. "In the time that I was going through watching things change and the music picking up, I was trapped in this house that me and my girlfriend had built this whole relationship in. And I had to move out of that house, because it was like every wall reminded me of this break-up. A lot of the songs come from that — how I couldn't look at certain things in that house, and how I had to get out."
Newman has yet to announce his U.S. live debut or the American release date for "Tribute," but says that stateside performances are "of course" coming. In the meantime, get familiar with the "Cheating" video below.


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To execute a successful dividend strategy investors face the challenge of selecting the right stocks. The various investment regions feature major differences in the amounts of dividends paid. Figure 2 shows a dividend landscape across developed economies contrasting a good year 2013 against financial crisis 2008. Not only do dividends vary over time – closely linked to country economic cycle – but dividend yields also differ considerably across countries.
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