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When The Capital Bled: Reconstructing the Anti-Sikh Pogrom in Delhi after the assassination of Indira Gandhi
The year of 1984 has been one of the most turbulent ones in the history of India. It saw Operation Blue Star, assassination of Mrs. Indira Gandhi and the anti-Sikh pogrom. It was not something that affected my life in a big way. The only thing I was told while growing up was that Indira Gandhi was a very powerful lady and India's first woman prime minister. Instinctively, every 31st October, when there used to be a full page tribute to her, it used to inspire me.
Some specials in Outlook and India Today put her death in context. In the age of internet, I came face to face with more 'specials' online remembering Indira Gandhi's assassination and its aftermath. But it was Amitav Ghosh's story "The Ghosts of Mrs. Gandhi" that first introduced me to the details of November 1984.
History textbooks do not mention this and newspapers and magazines have specials that glorify Indira Gandhi mostly. There are some that explain the massacre (that I found during the course of my research for this essay) but nothing explains the gravity of those three days. Possibly, this absence is ensured in order to make sure no one community is instigated further because of a troublesome past; or because the massacre was extremely politically motivated. Nothing can be said for sure but what is clear is that this event's history is available only in bits and pieces.
This is where memory steps in and allows us to create a parallel history that resists its obliteration from the official history. Literature coupled with oral history and people's memories brings out the silences that exist in the official history.
"I have done what I had to do. Now you do what you have to do" (Tully 2).
– Beant Singh [after assassinating Indira Gandhi].
What happened in 1984 was a culmination of the events that started when the demand for a separate Sikh state was made. 1977 saw the creation and subsequent rise of Jarnail Singh Bhindranwale. Bhindranwale was a violent fundamentalist whose focus was the establishment of Khalsa Raj. His speeches were charged and fired up the youth in Punjab who believed him as he spoke in the rustic language that appealed to them. Khushwant Singh, Indian novelist, politician, lawyer and journalist, in his book My Bleeding Punjab, points out how "Bhindranwale not only preached hatred, he also preached violence" (Singh 52).
The period starting from 1981 marked a time of heavy turbulence in Punjab. Terrorism, as it has been called in all the books which have accounted it, was rampant in the region. Mrs. Suvercha Kapoor, whose parents live in Jalandhar, Punjab, recounts the violence in Punjab:
For…three years [from 1981] this militancy in Punjab had gained momentum…I remember on one such trip home [from Delhi to Punjab]…my husband came to see me off at the station and I sat in the train and he got the newspaper for me to read on the way and the headline said that some 200 people killed in the train…and you can imagine my plight, travelling in train. [In Jalandhar], in my mother's house, we could hear gunshots at night…and there were accidents like bomb blasts and shootouts. [There was] this constant fear that something would happen to my father, something would happen to my brother…lips constantly moved in prayer…for three years we lived liked this…1
On October 6, 1983, President's Rule was promulgated in Punjab but the situation remained the same. Killings and robberies continued on a daily basis and went on till 1984. On 6th June, 1984, the sacred Golden Temple was attacked by the army under Operation Blue Star in order to bring out the terrorists seeking shelter in the temple. It was a long drawn attack damaging the Akal Takht and many other parts of the temple itself. In this attack, Bhindranwale and most of his associates died. Their bodies were strewn all over in the basement of the Akal Takht (Nayar and Singh). The attack outraged Sikhs not only in Punjab but all over the world. Kuldip Nayar and Khushwant Singh write in their book The Tragedy of Punjab: "…that the Akal Takht was destroyed made a deep wound in the Sikh psyche; it had been the seat of their Gurus. That it was Bhindranwale who had defiled the seat of their shrine, making it a fortress and the refuge of killers, was forgotten." (Nayar and Singh 127)
That Mrs. Gandhi life was at stake was also well known. She was asked to wear bullet proof jackets and was advised to not have Sikh bodyguards around her. On the morning of 31st October, she stepped out of her home without the bullet proof jacket and as she was walking out of the house into the compound, she was shot dead by her Sikh bodyguards Satwant Singh and Beant Singh. In fact, neither of them were supposed to be on duty that day but they managed to get themselves posted on the nearest security ring of the Prime Minister and assassinated her (Tully).
"Khoon ka badla khoon se lengey [We will avenge blood with blood]."
– Angry mobs as they killed Sikhs in Delhi.
It was just after Diwali and Mrs. Ravinder Kaur was serving kheer made out of left over sweets to her father-in-law in their house in Janakpuri when the news of Indira Gandhi's assassination came. ""The Prime Minister is dead, I don't want to eat anything," he said", recalls Mrs. Kaur. She still managed to force feed him but there was a larger problem looming. "I opened the windows to find a sardarji being beaten up by the mobs. I came inside to tell Daddyji about it but before I could say anything, stones started getting pelted at our house. I locked the doors but they broke our gate and set fire outside in the lawns," she says.
Mrs. Kaur, along with her family and a few months old daughter, fled to safety after dousing the fire off and settled in their neighbour's backyard. The mob then proceeded to set their entire house on fire.
Sikh bodyguards had killed the prime minister and Hindus were out on carnage against every Sikh in the city. While the violence was most prevalent in Delhi, other parts of the country were not spared either. Khushwant Singh recalls his own experience, "…I understood what words like pogrom, holocaust and genocide really meant. I was no longer a member of an over-privileged community but of one which was the object of dire hate" (Singh 94).
The loss of lives is estimated to be at 2,717 by the government out of which 2,150 were in Delhi and almost all of them were Sikhs (Tully). However, the unofficial estimate goes up to 6,000 with at least 50,000 Sikhs in refugee camps (Singh).
"A single death is a tragedy; a million deaths is a statistic."
– Joseph Stalin
Before delving into how 1984 is remembered through memory, it is important to understand how the carnage has been constructed in public memory through official history. This was the time before breaking news became a phenomenon and only a handful of houses had television sets, the rest getting by through radio or newspapers. Most people heard the news of the assassination from local news agencies and the External Services of the BBC because AIR did not get the permission to air the news until 6 pm.
Doordarshan only showed clips of the Teen Murti Bhawan in Delhi, where the slain prime minister's body lay. Doordarshan also showed clips of some people at the same place shouting slogans like "Indira Gandhi Amar Rahey" (long live Indira Gandhi) and "khoon ka badla khoon se lengey" (blood will be avenged with blood).
The two human rights NGOs, the People's Union for Democratic Rights and the People Union for Civil Liberties together published a report Who are the Guilty? wherein they laid bare the role of media in the anti-Sikh pogroms. The report elaborates on how the media named the religion of the bodyguards in spite of knowing that naming could aggravate tension:
The first day's evening bulletins (October 31) brought out by different newspaper establishments stated that there were "two Sikhs and one clean shaven Sikh" among the assailants. The reporters did not clarify whether the news was from official or unofficial sources. Nor was it clear how a "clean shaven Sikh" could be identified as a Sikh. In later reports the next day and the following days, we were told that only two assailants – both Sikhs were involved. What happened to the earlier reported third one? No newspaper has yet followed up the discrepancy…should the media have described the assailants immediately as Sikhs? Given the background of the Punjab situation, such mentioning of a community by name was bound to excite communal passions and inflame communal hatred (Who Are The Guilty?).
ABC News, on the other hand, showed extreme mob violence and carnage and gave a somewhat true picture of the city at that time – burning buses and homes, mobs shouting deadly slogans ("blood for blood") and people being killed and injured – unlike our national news channel (ABC News). Even newspapers mentioned how two Sikh bodyguards had gunned the prime minister down. The Times of India sub-headline read "Sikh security men pump bullet in chest, abdomen." The constant reinforcement of the involvement of Sikhs in the assassination and their image as 'terrorists' in the past few years erased any love that existed between the two communities.
An 'official' rendering of the event gives the timeline of events – assassination, massacre, intervention of the army and the death toll. The event recurs through specials once a year or through the court cases pending on the perpetrators of the violence. The newspaper Times of India and magazine India Today have special websites that lead us through the timeline of events in 1984 and some personal stories.
That the government did not and still does not want the incident to stay in public memory is evident in the A-rating given to the film Amu (2005). Shonali Bose's film Amu is about a girl, Kaju, who is back in New Delhi after 15 years. Her mother, Keya Roy has told her that she had been adopted through an agency and lived in a certain village but when Amu goes to the said village she is unable to recollect anything. However, when she goes to another village in Delhi, she gets flashbacks. She starts interrogating her family, the people in the second village and her mother. She is aided by Kabir, a boy she meets at a party whose father is a government servant. She gradually learns about the 1984 anti-Sikh pogrom and it is finally revealed that her family died in the massacre after which she was adopted by Keya who saved Kaju, then Amu, after her real mother committed suicide because she could not live with the horror of losing her son and husband. It is also revealed that Kabir's father was also involved in the riots.
In a recent interview with the Mumbai Mirror, Shonali Bose said, "[The film] got an 'A' even though it has no sex or violence, because the censor board, under Anupam Kher, argued that young people shouldn't know a history better buried" (Bose). Similarly, Rajiv Gandhi's dismissive remark on the massacre, "when a big tree falls, the Earth about it shakes" (Singh 96), also indicates the state's cavalier attitude towards the massacres, as something of little importance. This attempt at a systematic erasure of history then gives way to the other means through which we can sustain an event – memory.
"…words are, after all, all we have" (Butalia 360).
– Urvashi Butalia in The Other Side of Silence.
Mr Mohan Lal was returning to his home in Gurgaon from Paschim Vihar on the evening of 1sr November when he found out that there was no public transport. "I started at around four pm…[and] did not get a single auto/bus on the road. I started walking [towards the Delhi Cantt Railway Station]. After walking down to around 3 kms I got an auto rickshaw…[i]n auto, while I was passing through the lanes from Raja Garden, Tilak Nagar and Maya Puri, I could see many houses under fire, many bodies lying on the road in a pool of blood or burning"2. Mr. Lal continues with his experience of the same day, "I was waiting at Delhi Cantt railway station when an express train bound for Ahmedabad reached. All of a sudden a bunch of people came and started searching for the Sikhs in the train. Unfortunately one Sikh was seen by the group. They pulled him out of the train but he was able to go back and locked himself inside the toilet of the coach. The group broke open the toilet door and started beating him with rods in their hand…the man started running to escape but few people from the mob put some inflammable liquid on him and put him on fire. The train started moving and the man kept running along the train while he was on fire…until he fell down and became unconscious…in the train I boarded, it was stopped at every station between Delhi Cantt and Gurgaon and a mob was there, searching for the Sikhs passengers."
It is interesting to note that the mob which was responsible for all this violence had less to do with Indira Gandhi's death and more with the activities that they were assigned to do. The mob consisted of people from the lower stratum of society, mainly "sweepers, cobblers, day-labourers or beggars from shanty towns or villagers whose agricultural lands had been [taken]" (Singh 93) and they were aged between 12 and 30. They were more concerned with the loot that they could get after ransacking the homes of innocent Sikhs – killing was just a side fun game (Singh).
"It was the jamna-paar area that was the most affected," remembers Kaur. "My parents used to live there and were scared for their lives. The Sikh families were pulled out of their homes, beaten and then tires put around their neck with their hands behind their backs until they burned to death." In Amu, the protagonist Kaju is also a victim from Trilokpuri, one of the worst hit areas. Kaju's real father is killed by mobs while he screams "what have I done?" Kaju runs after her mother who goes to look for policemen and leaves her brother unattended. The mob kills her father and burns down the house, killing her brother along with it.
Mrs. Kapoor recalls the situation in her slightly upper class locality Green Park as stable. "A lot of killings happened in East and West Delhi where there was a lot of concentration of Sikh families. Out here in South Delhi the situation did not get very bad. Even then, the one Sikh family in our locality did not get out for 2-3 days, not even to fetch milk. South Delhi was quite peaceful," she says. The elite of the city did feel protected in a way. In his story Ghosts of Mrs. Gandhi, Amitav Ghosh narrates his experience as he stayed at his Bengali friend's house in Safdurjung. The neighbouring Sikh family of Mr. Bawa did not move until the mobs were dangerously close and until the friend's family dragged them to their house. In spite of the shouts outside, Mrs. and Mr. Bawa remained calm as they spoke to Mrs. Sen about the most trivial of things nonchalantly.
Lodi Colony in central Delhi also did not experience much carnage. A resident there who does not wish to be named related how only a couple of Sikh shops were burnt down. "It was mainly the poor who were targeted, the rich found their way out. Areas like Jahangirpuri, Trilokpuri, Khichdipur and Mangolpuri were targeted," he says. The Nanavati Commission reports less to no carnage in the south and central Delhi areas.
The help that was extended to the Sikhs also came from certain classes of the society. Mrs. Kapoor explained how her locality helped the Sikh family while they stayed locked up in their house by bringing them groceries and other items of need. Ghosh also says the same. He also talks about a protest in Lajpat Nagar led by Swami Agnivesh, Ravi Chopra and a few leaders from the opposition including Chandra Shekhar, against the massacre. He writes,"The group was painfully small by the standards of a city where crowds of several hundred thousands were routinely mustered for political rallies. Nevertheless, the members rose to their feet and marched." He describes how the march was "…confronted with…an image of twentieth century urban horror: burned out cars…debris and rubble everywhere…" but they held their own (Ghosh 205)3. In contrast, Mrs. Kaur did not get any such welcome from her neighbour when she went to hide in their house. She says, "We were not called by them. We just climbed over the wall and hid there. They were also scared as mobs kept asking them if they had hidden someone. But it never felt as if they were welcoming us." In Amu, the wife of the Sikh being butchered asks for help from the people around but they do not offer any. Mr. Lal also had a similar experience, "Public in the train as well as on the station just watched with indifference, not doing anything for the Sikh who was burning."
"I do not have the power to intervene" (Nanavati 124).
– Then President Giani Zail Singh on being asked for help.
The complicity of the system in the riots is evident in every single narrative. The police, the politicians and even people, no one spared the Sikhs. It is most evident in Nirpreet Singh's moving account in I Accuse…. Her family was able to hide inside after escaping from the mobs. A policeman then came to their house asking her father to come outside and make peace. When the duo went out, despite her mother's insistence to not go out, the policeman handed him over to the mob which proceeded to beat him and set him on fire. When he was able to douse himself by jumping into a nearby nallah, people tied him up and more joined in. When he doused himself off the second time, a priest shouted that if they don't kill him, "the sardar" would come back. This time when he was set on fire, he did not rise.
Victims have variously stated the presence of Congress leaders while the mob was rioting and have accused the leaders of inciting the mob. In Jarnail Singh's book I Accuse…, Darshan Kaur recounts how the congress leader HKL Bhagat had provoked the mob: "Don't leave a single Sardar. They are traitors. Kerosene, weapons, all are there. The police is with you. Crush the sardars". In Amu, the ladies that Kaju and Karan encounter also spell the same tirade against the politicians. Many other witnesses have stated having seen Bhagat with the mobs, as mentioned in the Nanavati Commission report. Khushwant Singh too writes that on the night of 31st October, local Congress leaders and politicians "met to decide how to "teach the Sikhs a lesson they would never forget"" (Singh 91).
The police was as bad as anyone else. Ravinder Kaur remembers, "Our neighbor's house was looted and especially the gold bangles that they had kept for their daughter's wedding were looted. Police did absolutely nothing. They were just standing there, looking on as spectators." In many places, where the victims thought that the police was there to protect them, they were in for a rude shock when they saw the police aiding the mob in their rioting or just not doing anything at all. Not only did the police help the mobs, they also refused to register FIRs in most cases. In the film, when Amu's mother goes to look for help, the policemen chide her away and the politicians incite more violence in the mob which is ready with its share of arson.
Many texts mention Rahul Bedi's account of Trilokpuri on the second day of the pogrom. Bedi, a journalist with the Indian Express, went to Trilokpuri on the second day and found out by residents that the slaughter had lasted for three hours but local police station told him that "nothing of consequence had happened." When he asked about a lorry with charred decomposing bodies in it parked in the yard, a police officer said, "The Station House Officer Sahib knows about these deaths but he is in Delhi and will deal with them on his return." Bedi also mentions how the armed forces were not helpful either, referring to the two army officers who were informed of the massacre but who did nothing to help. Another Air Force officer refused to help while a "second lieutenant on the city's main ring road said, 'I have no orders to intercede in any emergency'" (Tully 7).
That politicians were involved is evident due to the lack of official inquiry (inquiries were done by three separate groups) and people's narratives. The perpetrators remain unpunished till today, two popular names being Jagdish Tytler and Sajjan Kumar.
"Nothing is ever really lost to us as long as we remember it."
― L.M. Montgomery, The Story Girl.
It is beyond the scope of this essay to delve into more stories. But what these stories do here is reclaim their loss in the event through memory. Although the film Amu is about a girl in search of her past, it raises some deeper questions about the erasure and writing of history. At the personal level, Kaju's childhood and past is erased and rewritten by her adoptive mother. She is given a new name, a new village and a new past. At the level of the event, there is a constant erasure of the memory of the event. Through Kaju/Amu, who is the prime witness in the destruction of her own family; through Karan, whose father is consciously and very openly protecting his son and himself from the memory of the event primarily because he himself was involved in the massacre and through Kaju's mother and family who consciously try to keep her away from 'that area'. When the flashbacks come to her, it is her memory's way of fighting against the writers of her history.
The memories of the people are similarly trying to reclaim a past that is constantly being forgotten and left behind. Yes, these memories hold the potential to stir up more ethnic-clashes in a country whose people are provoked too easily but it is also necessary for people to know how ugly a few words of hate can get. Official records always remain strictly official offering statistics but memory maintains the humanity, or its lack thereof, in such an event.
1 All interviewees are above the age of 50.
2 The carnage began late night on October 31st but remained low scale. According to Citizens for Democracy report, the plans to massacre Sikhs on a large scale were made only at night at the behest of various Congress leaders (Singh 1992).
3 Keya Roy in Amu was also an upper middle class activist visiting the refugee camps.
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Bhattacharya, Roshmila. "Wrote the first draft after my son's death: Director Shonali Bose on her latest film that wowed TIFF, and her previous film's 'A' tag." Mumbai Mirror 19 September 2014. Print.
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Butalia, Urvashi. "Memory." The Other Side of Silence. New Delhi: Penguin Books, 1998. 347-371. Print.
Ghosh, Amitav. "Ghosts of Mrs. Gandhi." The Individual and Society: Essays, Stories and Poems. New Delhi: Pearson Longman, 2006. 194-207. Print.
Kapoor, Suvercha. Personal Interview. September 2014.
Kaur, Ravinder. Personal Interview. September 2014.
Lal, Mohan. Personal Interview. September 2014.
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"Nov.1, 1984: Chaos After Indira Ghandi's Death." ABC News. 1 November 1984. Television. Web. September 2014. <http://abcnews.go.com/Archives/video/nov-1984-chaos-indira-ghandis-death-12021174>.
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Prasannarajan, S. "25 Years Since 1984." India Today 2009. Web. <http://specials.indiatoday.com/common/bluestar/>.
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Tarishi Verma is a post-graduate student at the Tata Institute of Social Sciences. She is interested in writing fiction, academically in media and culture theories and film-making, mostly documentaries. When not engrossed in class work readings, she can be found reading, singing, eating and missing Delhi. She loves sitting indoors, finishing submissions on time and is extremely OCD about her books. Loves Bollywood when not being sophisticated. She may be contacted at firstname.lastname@example.com.


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Following communications were presented in the framework of the Technical Meeting, at ACW Changins, Switzerland, April 28-30, 2013
Recent developments of the EU biofuel policy - implications for domestic rapeseed demand (abstract)
D. Bockey, Union zur Förderung von Oel- und Proteinpflanzen e.V. (UFOP), Berlin, Germany
Changes to the EU biofuel policy framework - potential consequences for the global oilseed and rapeseed markets (abstract)
M. Boersch,Mercantile Consulting Venture Inc., Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
Farm economics of HOLL rapeseed in Northern Europe (abstract)
A. Williams, Monsanto International SARL, Switzerland
Future potential for oilseed production in Russia (abstract)
Y. Zimmer, S. Chetvertakov, Thünen Institute of Farm Economics, Braunschweig, Germany
Genetics and Breeding
An overview on breeding of winter oilseed rape varieties in Europe (abstract)
Martin Frauen, Norddeutsche Pflanzenzucht H.-G. Lembke KG, Hohenlieth, Germany
Trends in canola breeding in Australia, a success story (abstract)
Phil Salisbury, University of Melbourne, Australia
Canola (Brassica napus L.) breeding - research at the University of Alberta (abstract)
Habibur Rahman,University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada
Breeding for yield stabilization in mustard (Brassica juncea) in India (abstract)
Vibha Gupta, University of Delhi South Campus, New Delhi, India
Integrated genomic approaches to decipher quantitative partial resistances (abstract )
Régine Delourme,INRA UMR1349 IGEPP, Le Rheu, France
Advances in biotec- and marker- assisted breeding of oilseed rape (Brassica napus) (abstract)
Wolfgang Friedt, Justus Liebig University Giessen, Giessen, Germany
Repeat polyploidization with a new nuclear partner genome can result in very significant genomic and morphological changes in Brassica digenomics (abstract)
Surinder Banga, Punjab Agricultural University, Ludhiana, India
Posters :
Combined high level resistance to Sclerotinia sclerotiorum and Pseudo cercosporella capsellae in introgression lines derived from hybridization between Brassica carinata and B. napus (abstract)
M.P. You, S.S. Banga, S.K. Banga, M.B. Uloth, N. Gunasinghe, P.M. Finnegan, P.A. Salisbury, M.J. Barbetti, Australia/India
Development of semi-RS doubled haploid lines of winter oilseed rape with zero erucic acid and low glucosinolates
content (abstract)
Teresa Cegielska-Taras, Laurencja Szala, Katarzyna Sosnowska, Wieslawa Poplawska, Agnieszka Dobrzycka, Joanna Wolko, Anna Olejnik, Krzysztof Michalski, Iwona Bartkowiak-Broda, Poland
First results on the susceptibility of different oilseed rape cultivars against Dark Leaf and Pod Spot (Alternaria brassicicola and A. brassicae) (abstract)
I. Henneken, L. Agethen, V.H. Paul, Germany
Identification of QTLs for resistance to Sclerotinia stem rot and BnaC.IGMT5.a as a candidate gene of the major resistant QTL SRC6 in Brassica napus (abstract)
Jian Wu, Guangqin Cai, Jiangyin Tu, Lixia Li, Sheng Liu, Xinping Luo, Lipeng Zhou, Chuchuan Fan, Yongming Zhou, China
Survey and pathogen identification of blackleg disease on oilseed rape in China (abstract)
Qiangsheng Li, Baocheng Hu, Songbai Rong, Yingfen Jiang, Shumin Hou, Weixin Fei, Fengxiang Chen, Xinjie Wu, Zhixiong Fan, Weixia Lei, China
Towards identification of quantitative loci for sclerotinia resistance in Brassica napus germplasm and the underlying
defence genes(abstract)
L. Buchwaldt, F. Fu, S. Gyawali, D.D. Hegedus, I.A.P. Parkin, Canada
Genetic analysis of phenylpropanoid metabolites associated with resistance against Verticillium longisporum in Brassica napus (abstract)
Christian Obermeier, Muhammed-Ali Hossain, Rod Snowdon, Andreas von Tiedemann, Wolfgang Friedt, Germany
Investigations of genetic determination and the quality of yellow-seeded rapeseed (abstract)
Iwona Bartkowiak-Broda, Blazej Hernacki, Danuta Boros, Stefania Smulikowska, Jerzy Tys, Poland
Is oilseed rape mixed cropping an efficient solution to reduce nitrogen fertilization, weed population, and damage caused by insects?
Nathalie Landé, CETIOM, Thiverval-Grignon, France
Promoting biodiversity in canola cropping systems, the Canadian prairies experience
G. Sekulic, Canola Council of Canada, Grande Prairie, Alberta, Canada
Oilseed rape development in Argentina. Challenges and constraints, selection of adapted varieties and development of crop management practices
L. Aguirrezabal,Universidad Nacional de Mar del Plata, Balcare, Argentina
Designing an integrated pest management strategy for pollen beetles in oilseed rape
Sam Cook, Rothamsted Research, Har-penden, Hertfordshire, UK
A «Genome to Paddock» approach to controlling blackleg of canola
Barbara Howlett, the University of Melbourne, Australia
Clubroot – A challenge for oilseed rape cultivation and resistance breeding
Elke Diederichsen, Germany
Posters :
Is oilseed rape mixed cropping an efficient solution to reduce nitrogen fertilization, weed population, and damage caused by insects ?
Nathalie Landé, Gilles Sauzet, Philippe Leterme, France
Variability of rapeseed oil quality among locations and years Prediction of oil composition in a climate change context
Alice Baux, Switzerland
Innovative production technology for oilseed rape with very lowa-linolenic acid content
Corinne Mugny, Alice Baux, Yves Grosjean, Judith Wirth, Didier Pellet, Switzerland
Comparison of the economic efficiency, growing hybrid and OP winter oilseed rape varieties
Vítezslav Krcek, Petr Baranyk, Czech Republic
Comparison of the WOSR winter hardiness in the years 2010-2012
Petr Zehnálek, Petr Baranyk, Czech Republic
Effects of different fungicides against Dark Leaf and Pod Spot (Alternaria brassicicola and A. brassicae) in Oilseed rape in a detached pod test
I. Henneken, L. Agethen, V.H. Paul, Germany
Effects of experimental warming on three economically important pathogens in oilseed rape
M. Siebold, A. von Tiedemann, Germany (poster abstract)
Response of yield and oil fatty acid composition to the temperature and intercepted solar radiation of traditional and high oleic canola sown in Argentine. New findings of the behaviour of spring canola.
Constanza Alberio, Natalia G. Izquierdo, Marcelo Cantarero, Luis A.N. Aguirrezábal, Argentina
Post flowering temperature as a main factor regulating canola (Brassica napus L.) yield and oil content. Early sowing of spring genotypes to maximize oil yield in the Southern Cone
M. Pilar Vilariño, Déborah P. Rondanini, Daniel J. Miralles, Luis A.N. Aguirrezábal , Argentina
Yield determining factors for oilseed rape in the UK
Simon P J Kightley, Stuart M Knight, Ian J Bingham, Ben Lang, Haidee L Philpott, UK
Determining an economic damage threshold for pollen beetles, Meligethes spp.
Thomas Steinger, Hans Ramseier, Switzerland
Analysis and Uses
Fate of rapeseed glucosinolates and trans-formation products thereof in digesta, the gastrointestinal tract and the monogastrics metabolism and xenobiotic system
J. C. Sørensen, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark
Rapeseed for pigs
Hanne Maribo, Pig Research Centre, Copenhagen, Denmark (here : abstract)
Effect of rapeseed processing on protein quality of rapeseed meal in diets for pigs
R. Mosenthin, University of Hohenheim, Stuttgart, Germany
Structural organization of rapeseed oil bodies, a key for improving oil extraction ?
T. Chardot, INRA Versailles, France (here : presentation)
P.I.V.E.R.T: Development of an oil-based biorefinery
J.F. Rous, Sofiproteol, Paris, France
Canola n-3 fatty acids in the inflammatory process of cardiovascular disease and meta-bolic syndrome
Vera Mazurak, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
Posters :
Evaluation of methods for the determination of the residual oil content in rapeseed and other oilseeds meals and cakes
Alain Quinsac, Patrick Carré, CETIOM, France (here : abstract)
Comparison of yellow seed trait and dehulling effects on the chemical composition and nutritional value of rapeseed meal
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From Travel Designers to Lifestyle Planners, the modern-day agent has new platforms, clients and strategies to ensure both consumers and companies are happy, and no one knows this better than Wendy Wu Tours Founder Wendy Wu.
"Travel agents many years ago had the monopoly on the market. When the internet came out, agents were required to know everything about every destination, and to be able to compete!," she said. "For some years, there was a thought that they would become redundant, or just the fulfillers of internet searches."
"Things have changed and whilst today agents still compete with the online players, there is a growing market need for travel agents with specific knowledge for itineraries that are harder than flop and drop or multi country."
So just why are Travel Agents still so important? For Wu, it's their skillset.
"Travel Agents provide a huge level of service and security to travellers."
"They are able create itineraries tailored to their clients' needs and make recommendations based on market trends and value for money," Wu added.
After an earlier shake-up in the industry with the arrival of OTAs, Travel Agents are now in the midst of a boom in popularity, and Wu pins this down to their ability to shape holidays around the contemporary traveller.
"Travellers are time-poor, as life in 2017 is so busy, so more and more people are turning to retail travel agents and homeworkers to arrange their precious, sometimes, annual, holidays, to save them the time of arranging it themselves, and also make sure that an expert has planned their trip."
"Holidays are also getting more unusual, travellers want new experiences, and to go further off the beaten path, to explore more areas and enjoy more experiential holidays – a travel agent has the knowledge that would otherwise take you days and days of research, plus has often visited the area," Wu said.
"People are comfortable using an agent for things like their mortgage and their insurance; why not use an agent to arrange your travel too!"
As well as this, Wu added that agents will "save you time and money – sometimes they even have access to exclusive offers, for example at Wendy Wu Tours we often give travel agent priority access".
"The agents also have experience in the areas that you're going – even if it's your first time, it's not theirs!"
So enough about how integral agents are to travellers and companies alike, how are they changing their offerings?
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Update on PhilThursday, February 1st, 2007
Aunt Marva Lee just called with the update. Phil received the best possible news yesterday when he was told that the Leukemia is in Stage Zero. The doctor told him to go on living his life like normal and to check back in every three months for blood work to monitor the progression of the cancer.
Aunt Marva Lee said to keep in mind that this form of cancer is the slowest moving form there is and it is possible for it to go into remission. At this point, all there is to do is monitor it.
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There are some things that money just cannot buy, like manners, morals and integrity.
The statement above cannot be more accurate for my weekend experience. Kei and I had to work on a architectural plan this weekend, but we also want to spend time together so we came up with an idea… we do our work as usual at the nearest coffee shop. Then go shopping after.
That was the start of a cringe worthy afternoon experience for the both of us.
As soon as we arrived at the coffee shop, we immediately got our orders and proceeded to carry on our task. Plugged the laptop and even shared our table to a couple of students. After a short while the students left, leaving the whole table to us. Bliss.
Then came a family of tourists. They have no table so we shared ours to them. The family having many members, are arguing themselves on how to get more chairs/grab other people's spot. We paid them no attention.
Our peaceful stay has become a disaster. The kids of the said family fought over a frap, suddenly there was screaming, and crying and without a warning my feet was splashed with a cold sticky mocha frap. Without even a sorry and without even bothering to wipe of the mess on our area and the floor. The elders of the family just got napkins to soak up the coffee on the table. So, there we were on a shared table, our laptop near the pile of soggy napkins and my feet sticky and clammy from the frap. I just wiped my foot with wet ones and acted like everything is normal.
I was irked, but yeah. shit happens so, we continue our work.
And the kids got another frap to fight over. Hell's bells.
You guessed it. The contents of the second cup is all over the table again. For the second time, and they did have a lot more spare cups. We were restraining ourselves from getting into a fight with the family of tourists! If only we could do the table flip!
Before our stuff gets damaged, we hurriedly packed up and left.
With Kei muttering loudly and I giving them the stank eye. Good thing we did finish our work for a quick 30 mins.
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I hope this doesn't hurt Jake Owen's feelings. However, Jake, you may not, in fact, be the biggest star at your house, buddy.
That title may actually belong to your beautiful daughter Pearl.
Owen recently posted the most adorable Instagram video of his pride and joy as they embarked on their first fishing trip together. Pearl is seen riding with her daddy, clutching a bag of Goldfish snacks and wearing a little sundress, straw hat and the biggest grin you can imagine as the two prepare to hit the water.
When Owen asks her, "Where are we going?" she yells back enthusiastically, "Go fishing!"
He says, "Are we going fishing?" and she answers, "Yeah!"
Daddy asks, "Are you excited?" She tosses back, "Yeah!"
I mean, this video is too precious for words. And it's not the first time Pearl has starred in a video on her daddy's Instagram. She's also been spotted sitting in his lap singing along as he plays guitar and grooving on his shoulders as they dance together in the streets of Downtown Disney.
As for their inaugural fishing trip, there's no word on how well the fish were biting that day for Owen and little Miss Pearl, but something tells me these two weren't in it for the actual numbers or bragging rights. Moments like this are all about creating memories to last a lifetime. And we're certain this is one memory Owen will never forget.


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Saturday, September 27, 2014
Day 78 of 100 Days of Good Karma.
A few weeks ago I went to a workshop called Look Good, Feel Better. I promised a friend I'd type up the notes I took and send them to her.
The idea behind the Look Good, Feel Better workshops are to help women with cancer feel better about how they look during treatment.
The volunteer leading the workshop, Ricky, a wig designer and makeup artist, was very knowledgeable and helpful.
So if these tips work for you, great. You can thank Ricky.
If they don't then the blame is all mine for not taking better notes.
Skin care
The story of the day: Be gentle.
The bag I was given had Dove and Aveeno facial cleansers. Chemotherapy already dries you out so Ricky said to avoid harsh soaps because they can be even harder on already dry skin.
He said don't use exfoliates. They're too irritating on skin going through chemotherapy. If you need to exfoliate, he recommended using a wash cloth with a gentle cleanser.
If you find your scalp is dry after losing your hair, you can put facial moisturizers on your head, too.
To get rid of puffiness under your eyes Ricky said to put a spoon in the freezer. Once it's super cold, you can take it out and press down under the eyes rolling out the puffiness.
Eye concealer is good for covering up dark under eye circles. To apply, dot under the eye in the shape of an upside down triangle until the dark circles are covered. Then blend concealer with a sponge.
Ricky said that a lot of lighter skinned women have a red rosacea appear during chemotherapy. He recommended looking for Physician's Formula makeup to cover redness. The makeup has a green-ish tint, so covers red well.
When applying foundation, use a disposable sponge. Ricky said don't reuse sponges because they're breeding grounds for bacteria.
To apply foundation, he broke the face down into three zones, working from Zone 1 to Zone 3.
Allow your makeup to dry before you apply powder with a press puff (press with the puff, don't rub).
A tip for those wearing a wig: Ricky said to put the wig on before you put your makeup on. While the wig is on, mark the hairline of the wig with a light pencil. Then remove the wig, and apply makeup only to the hairline of the wig. This way you'll get less makeup on the wig which cuts down on wig maintenance.
There was something in the bag I'd never seen before when it came to blush. A three-color set like you see with eye shadow. Ricky said these can create contours if your face is swollen from steroids or weight gain.
To apply, the dark color goes underneath the bone contour, the middle color on the bone and the highlighter at the top. The shape of the blush should not be concentrated in the front of the face.
He said, "Think of the Nike swish. Match your facial contour."
Eye Shadow
Ricky cautioned us, "Don't get stuck with the same neutral colors. Think of eye makeup as an accessory. Don't be afraid to match it to your clothing."
Several women spoke up saying they'd heard otherwise. I've heard the same.
But if eye shadow is your thing, Ricky said feel free to go to town. He said he's seen some women make five and six different shades of eye shadow work together.
Eyebrows and eyelashes
According to Ricky, "Eyebrows and eyelashes are the last to go and first to come back." This is good news because you look more 'sick' with no eyebrows.
Other than the occasional taming with wax or tweezers, I've never had to do much to my eyebrows. I had no idea how to draw on eyebrows, so this topic was the main reason I showed up to the workshop.
Ricky said you can buy eyebrow stencils at Sallys or Ulta. One woman in the class recommended Sally's over Ulta because of the price. I can't confirm this since I haven't had to shop for them yet, but I thought I'd pass the information on.
I learned that a medium gray is a universal eyebrow pencil color. To apply, lay the pencil point up against your nose. Make dots following the contour of your brow bone. Don't just connect the dots with a straight line. Fill in the dots by making light feathering strokes simulating individual hairs with the brow pencil. Press the makeup sponge into brow pencil to set the makeup.
I tried to find a YouTube tutorial with the technique, but I didn't see exactly what Ricky did. However, this one here seems to recreate the most natural looking eyebrows. She goes a little further with the 'eye shadow' and 'setting' steps than Ricky did, but the pencil technique looks similar.
Ricky said that while you have lashes, apply mascara to both the bottom of your lashes (stroking up), and the top of your lashes (stroking down).
Once your eyelashes start to fall out, just give up mascara because the mascara will only make the gaps in lashes more noticeable.
Instead use eyeliner, keeping as close to the lash line as possible.
Don't use the eyeliner on the inside rim of your eye because this can get bacteria in the eye and the last thing anyone needs while on chemotherapy is any sort of infection.
Ricky said you can use fake lashes if you want, but don't ever reuse them. Once they've been used, throw them away. The adhesive is a breeding ground for bacteria.
Hair and Wig care
Hair care
If your hair is in a state like mine (think 'mangy dog') Ricky said get a really nice shampoo that's gentle on the scalp.
While in the shower, put a little bit of shampoo on a wash cloth then rub the wash cloth on your head. This traps the hair that is still falling out in the wash cloth instead of making it stick to everything else.
Wigs Care
There are basically two types of wigs: those made with human hair and those made with synthetic fibers. I have synthetic wigs, so I paid more attention to the care instructions for the synthetic wigs. If needed, I found more Wig Care tips here and here.
To shampoo a wig fill a sink with cold, soapy water. Hold the wig in one hand with your thumb over the part then dip the wig into the water. Ricky said the best soap to use on synthetic wigs is Dawn dish detergent because it removes oils.
To dry, roll the hair in a towel and squeeze the water out. Hang to dry on a wig stand. If you don't have a wig stand, use a paper towel rack or a door knob. Don't lay it flat.
He said that wigs need to be washed otherwise you get skin oils on the wig. Those same oils will collect bacteria that you then put back on your head when you put the wig back on. This can cause itching and breakouts.
So that's it. Those are the notes I took during the workshop. I hope they are helpful!
Today's silver lining: Being able to cross another task off my To Do list.
What's your silver lining today? I love comments!
Just a quick note on Ulta vs. Sally costs. Yes, Ulta can be more expensive but they also have a much extensive inventory so it really depends on what you are looking for. Ulta also has a great selection of natural products with no parabens, etc. so you would not be using products with potentially harmful ingredients or harsh products. They also have a lotion called Hempz which is fantastic and has lot's of natural oils in it. It is great, but is pricey.
The good thing about Ulta is the coupons and discounts they offer when you sign up for their card. I tried a small purse-sized bottle of this lotion first and fell in love with it. Then I bought the large bottle when it was buy one & get one half off. They have a great selection of products and there have been times when Sally just didn't have what I needed.
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Sometimes you just awaken in the morning, see that the fall day promises to be one filled with sunshine and balmy weather, and you just want to rush outdoors and enjoy it while you still can. Fall days are like that for me.
If you're a long-time reader of Mama's Empty Nest, you will know that autumn is my very favorite time of year. Sun-kissed temperate days, cooler crisp nights, a dazzling array of multi-colored leafy wardrobes on trees, happy faced hues of yellow, orange, rust, and crimson mums, an abundance of pumpkins and gourds. What's not to love about fall?
This past Sunday proved to be such a glorious day that Papa and I just couldn't imagine spending it indoors. So we played hooky from church and ventured on an excursion to an outdoor festival that I've always wanted to attend.
Penn's Colony, which has been taking place annually the last two weekends in September for over 30 years, is not just a typical arts and crafts festival. Instead the festival, which is set up like a colonial village in the midst of a wooded area, provides a little step back in history and that's right up my hubby's alley. Focus is on the French and Indian War era with battle reenactments, artillery skills, and citizen's drills as well as 'colonial faire' entertainment: period music, a bagpipe quartet, and an 'old-tyme' circus act including a fire-eater.
Artisan vendors dressed in colonial garb and booths numbered close to 200. Art work from fine art to pottery to folk art to glass creations were on display and for sale. Other booths included woodwork, leatherwork, linens, weavings, jewelry, and period clothing to name just a few. One craftsman showcased his exquisite handcrafted 18th century furniture reproductions.
And of course, a myriad of food booths either quenched your thirst or satisfied a growling stomach or gave you jars of goodness to take home. Penn's Colony and a magnificent autumn Sunday meshed quite nicely and proved to be a win-win situation for us. My history buff husband enjoyed the glimpse into the past and especially the battle reenactment. I loved seeing all of the handiwork and snapping photos.
So since a picture is worth a thousand words and I'm feeling less wordy today, I'll show you some photos I shot there.
And did I mention it was a flawlessly beautiful autumn day? All in all, it was a perfect falling into fall day.
"I love autumn, the one season of the year that God seemed to have put there just for the beauty of it." ~Lee Maynard
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Generally, with my posts, I try to either write a book review, give a writing tip, or spew some personal philosophy on my current career choice. This one will be a little of all three.
So I recently started an eight-to-five sort of job working on the staff of a children's magazine.
I like this job. It's creative; I love the publishing process, editing, going through submissions (which, with children, is a special hoot); I get to write; the people I work with are nice.
Still, it's an hour commute both ways and this will sound pathetic and whiny to most of you (because it is pathetic and whiny), but the 6:00 am—6:00 pm days were kicking my trash. Are kicking my trash, I should say (it's getting better). The first night when I got home, I was sure I would have no problem falling asleep at 7:30 pm. But I needed to write.
So I just . . . did. I opened the document I wanted to work on, pledging at least 500 words, and as I worked, instead of tiring more, I started to feel refreshed. I knew I would do this for the rest of my life, no matter how unsuccessful or successful I ended up.
It made me think of this quote by Gloria Stein:
"Writing is the only thing that when I do it, I don't feel I should be doing something else."
Now here comes the book review part. I've been reading a book called The Man Who Talks With Horses. It's an autobiography of Monty Roberts, which I picked up in the first place because I based Gatsby's (a main character in my upcoming novel) horse training techniques on Monty's. Surprisingly, it's really good. I mean, the man's life is interesting, but usually I don't like autobiographies because while the person is interesting, the book is not well written. But Monty hired a pretty-dang-skilled writing partner (Lawrence Scanlan) and the finished product is great. Go read it.
Anyway. The reason it relates to what I'm talking about. Monty is like . . . a mini-legend with horses. Not only with his training techniques, but he's been winning in rodeos and horsemanship shows since he was four years old. He's just good.
When he was a teenager, he did a short stint giving workshops called "Learn the Secret of a Rodeo Champion," which would supposedly tell kids what they needed to do if they wanted to win. Then he makes the aside comment that there was no secret, that no special talent had been bestowed upon Monty Roberts. The secret, he said, was that he was obsessed. He took to horses like a holy calling, knew very early and with a lot of conviction: this is what I'm going to do. He said most kids his age rode a couple times a week, maybe the weekends, but he was with a horse often for seven to eight hours a day. At least. For them, it was a hobby, it wasn't their life.
Writing is the same. Nobody can tell you how to succeed at writing (even if they write a book called "How To Succeed At Writing") because there is no WAY; there are, instead, many ways. The difference, I think, is the level of conviction in a writer. Do they love writing? Or do they just like it okay? Are they obsessed? Do they need to do it above all else?
Look, there's no reason to get weird about it. Please don't write a poem in your own blood or worsen the already bad reputation of the writing community by offing yourself.
But this is a path for the brave and the loyal. At some point, you'll need to find another reason to work than the desire for success or recognition. It must come from another place. If you're wondering if you're ever going to make it, judge how bad you want it—judge where your heart is. If it's something that's just semi-important, that's fine, but don't be disappointed if you meet with semi-okay success.
All I know is this: when I decided I wanted to be a writer, I was very bad at it. I'm right now only slightly less bad at it than when I started. But I am obsessed. If you decide to write, then you must do it, as Balzac said, "like a miner buried under a fallen roof."
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J-Wiki has listed this as an enka although I think the arrangement of this song is more along Mood Kayo lines because of the jaunty beat and the boozy saxophone in there. And I gotta say that Aki Yashiro(八代亜紀)is pretty darn genki in the video.
"Mou Ichido Aitai" (I Want To Meet Him One More Time) was released as Yashiro's 17th single in September 1976, and it's a song that I heard on the most recent episode of "Uta Kon"(うたコン). It stood out to me since the last couple of entries by the veteran singer I've heard were definitely more on the maudlin side. I'm not sure what the setting of the song is but my imagination posits the vivacious Yashiro as a footloose and fancy-free young lady who knows her away around the tony neighbourhoods of Ginza and Akasaka. And there, she finds the ultimate Mr. Right from afar but just can't seem to get him. Hey, Aki, we've all been there, lady! In any case, that statement also weighs a bit more for supporting my theory for it being a Mood Kayo.
I did mention those last couple of Yashiro tunes I came across. Well, one is "Namida Koi"(なみだ恋)which was her first big hit from 1973. "Mou Ichido Aitai" hit even higher in the Oricon rankings than that song, breaking into the Top 10 at No. 9, earning another invitation for Yashiro to the Kohaku Utagassen that year, and winning a prize for Best Song at the Japan Record Awards as well. She also made some history by winning the same prize the following year for her 22nd single, "Ai no Shuuchaku Eki"(愛の終着駅)which is the second of those Yashiro tunes I was referring to.
Ultimately, "Mou Ichido Aitai" was the 97th-ranked single for 1976 and it did even better in 1977 as the 78th-ranked single. The song was written by veteran Yoko Yamaguchi(山口洋子)and composed by Shinichi Nozaki(野崎眞一). Yashiro would also perform the old chestnut at the 1993 Kohaku.


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I hear tell that them folks over there in tha K-pop studios, that's producin' all them fine tunes, are gettin' wise to tha fact that their, ohhh, what's that word… genre, might be gettin' a little on tha stale side. They's a figurin' that dog just won't hunt forevuh.
So, looks like they done went and thunk on tryin' supmtin' new to give a little life to them tunes they makin'. Country K-pop!
From Time Magazine:
Country music and K-Pop may seem like strange bedfellows right now, but musicians and producers are betting that this unlikely union could yield the next chart-busting hit. Meaning: we could start hearing American-music influences in one of the world's most popular and dynamic pop genres.
I ain't too crazy about them "bedfellows" they talkin' 'bout, what with a lotta them fellah singers already lookin' a little girly, but K-pop mixed with country? Hail yeah!
As fer that "American influence" they speakin' of well, I didn't even know that K-pop was a traditional Korean music. Now I love it even more. I'm callin' mama right now!
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So are you full to the brim? It was Thanksgiving this past weekend for us Canadians and we spent it up at the cottage doing nothing but eating LOL. I'm stuffed and probably don't have to eat all week now! For my post today I am sharing with you two cards using the adorable High Hopes Stamp called "Guard Duty Rudy".
I chose papers from the new Echo Park The Story of Fall 6x6 collection! The papers in this collection are beautiful, I almost wanted to hoard them rather than use them (LOL). I inked all the edges of my paper with Tim Holtz Distress Ink in Vintage Photo.
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Many doctors don't ask their teenage patients about their drinking, a new study finds. A survey of 10th graders found that while more than 80 percent had seen a doctor in the past year, only 54 percent of them were asked about drinking, and 40 percent were advised about the dangers of alcohol.
The survey of more than 2,500 teenagers was conducted by the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA),MedicalXpress reports. Researchers found 34 percent of the teens said they drank alcohol in the past month. In the journal Pediatrics, lead author Ralph W. Hingson, ScD, MPH, reported 26 percent said they had binged, defined as five or more drinks in one sitting for males, and four or more for females.
"Alcohol is by far the drug of choice among youth," NIAAA Acting Director Kenneth R. Warren, PhD, said in a news release. "The findings reported by Dr. Hingson and his colleagues indicate that we must redouble our efforts to help clinicians make alcohol screening a routine part of patient care for young people in the United States."
In 2011, NIAAA and the American Academy of Pediatrics released atwo-question alcohol screening tool designed to help pediatricians spot children and adolescents at risk for alcohol-related problems. The doctor asks about the patient's own drinking, as well as his or her friends' alcohol use. The tool walks the doctor through the steps to take when patients say they or their friends drink, and helps them assess the level of risk for current and future alcohol problems.


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My Lovely friends~ We will soon have all four Fresh Pretty cures~! I would like to thank a commenter who helped me translate Berry's attack it's "Spore Sunshine!" Thank you~
Like always my Summaries are quick, and I usually kepp them short, to use less space.
Inori is walking to school and has a flashback of her and Love talking about Love and Miki dancing with Miyuki, Inori gets sad.
Inori goes to a church and prays.The yellow rod is watching her intently.
At Love's house Love shows Miki Tart and Chiffon, who are looking intently at Miki.
Inori is walking to the stage and sees that no one is there, she gets sad and goes home. At her house/Animal hospital she sees a boy struggling to walk a dog. At Love's house Miki is day dreaming about how wonderful being a Pretty cure is, and how rich they could get. The next day, Eas turns a dog into a feroucious Monster~ Oh noesss~ Miki and Love transform. Inori is trying to get everybody to come back. Miki and Love start fighting with the dog but get no where. Inori tells them to stop it and runs in front of the three. Inori gets the dog to lay down and begs them to not hurt it. The dog gets up and is about to attack Inori, but Peach and Berry carry her off. Her phone "Falls" out and yellow rod runs into it, she changes into Cure Pine. Her attack is "Healing fresh or Shine" something like that.
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Military Jobs in Pierre SD
Excelcia's local index provides an outstanding resource for locating Military Jobs in Pierre and other cities in South Dakota.
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Critical Language Scholarship Program
US college students spend a summer immersed in one of the world's critical languages and cultures.
The Critical Language Scholarship (CLS) Program is an intensive overseas language and cultural immersion program for American students enrolled at US colleges and universities. The program includes intensive language instruction and structured cultural enrichment experiences designed to promote rapid language gains. CLS is part of a wider government initiative to expand the number of Americans studying and mastering foreign languages that are critical to national security and economic prosperity. CLS plays an important role in preparing students for the 21st century's globalized workforce and increasing national competitiveness.
The CLS Program is sponsored by the US Department of State with funding provided by the US government. It is supported in its implementation by American Councils for International Education. The CLS Program offers intensive summer language institutes in 15 critical foreign languages, including:
- Azerbaijani, Bangla/Bengali, Hindi, Indonesian, Korean, Punjabi, Swahili, Turkish, Urdu: Beginning, intermediate or advanced level;
- Arabic, Persian, Portuguese: Advanced beginning, intermediate or advanced level;
- Chinese, Japanese, Russian: Intermediate or advanced level
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Melissa F. Miller, PhD, MPHResearch & Training Institute
Cancer Support Community
Philadelphia, PA
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Margaret L. Longacre, PhD, Melissa F. Miller, PhD, MPH, Mitch Golant, PhD, Alexandra Zaleta, PhD, Joanne S. Buzaglo, PhD
September 2018 Vol 9, No 9
Family caregivers are integral to patient care in oncology, including attending appointments in which care options are discussed or decisions are made. The involvement of caregivers in oncology care will only increase as practice recommendations and policies are encouraging their inclusion. Yet, we do not fully understand the treatment decision-making (TDM) dynamics between patients and their caregivers or the capacity among caregivers to make care decisions. Further, caregivers' communication with a patient or healthcare team (HCT) remains underexplored in understanding shared decision-making.
Medication Adherence Among Patients with Chronic Myeloid Leukemia: The Impact of Financial Burden and Psychosocial Distress
Joanne S. Buzaglo, PhD, Clare Karten, MS, Margaret L. Longacre, PhD, Melissa F. Miller, PhD, MPH, Eberechukwu Onukwugha, MS, PhD, Elisa S. Weiss, PhD
April 2017 Vol 8, No 4
The authors present their findings on a study addressing interventions that foster patient-clinician communication and referral for services related to both financial need and psychosocial distress to ensure optimal adherence to CML therapy.
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This is the second in a series of writings that I am feeling guided to share about my personal, yet very collective, journey into the shadow of the masculine heart, and the soul aspects that are contained within. The purpose is to feel and heal what has still been hidden around power and leadership in the service of Love to Self, romance, community, humanity, and Gaia. I look forward to any engagement that you may feel guided to express along the way. You can even recommend a place for me to go that may have some significance for you. I feel this is a co-creative journey between myself and those that take this in. You can find the beginning of the series at https://soulfullheartblog.com/category/by-gabriel-heartman/recreating-history/
A few days ago, with the assistance of the divine feminine guidance of Jelelle, Raphael and I took a meditative journey into lands that seemed to shift and change. It was difficult for me to determine a specific timeline. It was as if multiple timelines were presenting themselves at once. But the theme was the same. A carrying out of orders for an emotionally and spiritually devoid leader. Not following our own heart, but projecting our own power unto the throne of dictatorship.
Death was all around. Bodies strewn across a battlefield. The energy in comparison to my own frequency was quite intense. I saw my own 'brother' taking things from other fallen men. We were guided to turn 'off' the scene, remove the war vibe, and connect to these souls in trauma. In their eyes, I could see and feel the PTSD. The insanity of it all. The vibration of the violence still lived inside. To feel the serenity of the stillness was a stark contrast. At that moment, these men could feel the depth of how far they had 'fallen', how much they had given away in their own search for power.
It was important to stay separate from the scene. I have tended to dwell on the story when all that was needed was to 'grab' the brother out of the situation and place him in another frequency that is much lighter and higher. It is not about just releasing the energy either. They needed to be placed almost in an ICU environment that Raphael and I are calling New Camelot, a more 5D frequency. This gives these lives a new lease on a new life. A new timeline to integrate.
What I learned from this experience is that our 'past' lives, which are really happening right Now, are energetic imprints in time/space. That is where the karma lies. In this rescue mission, led by our Higher Selves, our Protectors/Gatekeepers, and other guides such as Metatron and others, we are seeking out this karmic energy so that it can be transmuted into love and integrated back into the Metasoul. The gifts of these lives, no longer stuck in the karmic swirl, are the increasing sense of true power that is centered in love and not fear.
Raphael felt, too, that it will be important to bring these lives back to their original timeline(s), so that there can be a completion of the ties that bound the hearts and souls to the leader. A loving "fuck you" and an invitation to bring them and the other men into the fold of our Higher Heart. That is where shit gets collective!
Wow… I am seeing this whole new world of what our imaginations are capable of! We truly have the gift of recreating the world from within, one cluster of lives at a time. This is going to be a wild ride. I feel a possible series of writings coming from this experience that will invite other men to seek their own inner quantum multidimensional healing journeys. That is a mouthful, but more importantly heartful and soulful. I look forward to what is arising and will arise in me as we continue to unfurl what lies at the core of our male story.
More to follow…..
Gabriel Heartman is an emoto-spiritual men's and women's facilitator, energy healer, writer, poet, and heartist with the SoulFullHeart Way of Life. Visit https://www.soulfullheartwayoflife.com for more information about space holding sessions, group calls, videos, community, etc.
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WineSaver Pro Wine Preserver - Argon Gas
£20.00 incl. VAT
Wineware offer an affordable, restaurant quality wine preserving system designed for restaurants by an actual restaurant owner. Winesaver Pro is the first multi-bottle wine preserve system to maintain the integrity of your "wines-by-the-glass program" using the preserving qualities of Argon Gas. It has a 30 day satisfaction guarantee as long as the unit has not been misused.
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How to reduce timber waste: put your logs through a CT scanner
TreeHugger loves wood construction, but a lot of wood is wasted, particularly if you are looking for the high quality clear stuff. But how do you tell what's inside? These days, you can put it through an CT scanning machine for logs.
According to Forest Future,
The Japanese market demands high-end clear boards and posts cut from fir, hemlock or balsam in metric sizes, which are used in traditional post-and-beam Zairai house design. Scanning allows the mill to identify its best logs to tailor to that product.
Watch the video and turn down the Daredevil-ish soundtrack; it is really amazing to see right inside the log. The computer calculates the best way to cut it to avoid defects, and increases yield by 8 percent, which adds up to a lot of wood. The logs fly through the machine at 590 feet per minute. It also gets the most out of "decadent", or old and decaying logs, which might otherwise go to waste. According to Microtec, the manufacturer of the scanner:
Sawing and bucking solutions are continuously optimized based on the highest quality and resale value, allowing production to be managed according to real-time priorities. Large Cone-Beam Computed Tomography is the most innovative technology for the log yard and saw infeed developed by the industry leading engineers at Microtec. This approach uses a large X-ray sensor rotating around the log and an innovative mathematical inversion algorithm to perform high speed, high resolution X-ray CT-scanning.
When I was in Haida Gwaii last year as a guest of the Rainforest Alliance to look at logging, I saw how a grader would inspect each log and based on experience, assign a grade. A big L meant "love log"- a really high value piece of wood that would do well in the market. Being able to look right inside a log with a CT scanner would probably would turn up a lot more valuable wood and more love logs.
So neat to see tech that reduces waste and increases value of a renewable resource. Found in Tree Frog News


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from McConnaughay for State Senate 33 campaign
SPRINGFIELD, IL- Karen McConnaughay today filed petitions to be placed on the ballot for the Republican nomination for the Illinois State Senate in the newly created 33rd District, which includes much of northern Kane and southeastern McHenry Counties.
McConnaughay, currently the Chairman of the Kane County Board, filed more than twice the required signatures to qualify for the ballot and obtained signatures from voters in all of the District's 11 townships. "The response was very heartening," said McConnaughay. "Voters in Kane County were very supportive and appreciated our efforts to cut spending and reduce government headcount, and voters in McHenry were very enthusiastic about my plans to attack wasteful spending at the state level."
McConnaughay recently passed a county budget that further reduces spending and cuts the property tax levy for homeowners. She has reduced county department headcount by over 25% during her tenure and recently finalized a new county health insurance contract that actually reduces the cost for both taxpayers and also employees by restructuring benefits.
"As I have traveled across this new district talking to voters they tell me loud and clear that they need my kind of conservative fiscal leadership in Springfield," said McConnaughay. "They want results and they want someone to go to Springfield who knows how to get these things done, not more empty speeches and divisive partisanship."
The 33rd District was created when state lawmakers redrew legislative boundaries following the 2010 Census. The 33rd District includes all or part of Crystal Lake, Huntley, Lake in the Hills, Lakewood, Carpentersville, Hampshire, Elgin, South Elgin, St. Charles, Geneva, Batavia, Algonquin, Sleepy Hollow, Gilberts, Pingree Grove, East and West Dundee.


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Don't believe I'm the new Karen Blixen - a Danish woman who settled in Kenya to grow coffee... I guess you all know the film "Out of Africa" (Meryl Streep / Robert Redford). My forever favorite film - don't know how many times I've seen it! :) We have the trees in our garden, because as coming from Norway - I find coffee trees very exotic! :)
Coffee is grown in small scale in the Chamarel area, because the trees flowers during the risky cyclone season. The trees are grown in sheltered places by the ridges of the hillsides. There are three types of coffee growing here; Arabica, Liberica (smaller version of Arabica) and Robusta. Coffee is not endemic to the island, it was imported from Brazil, via Madagascar and Thailand. The coffee beans are roasted, ground and packed by hand in a small factory at the tiny village Case Noyale.


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How to Use TurboTax With an LLC Businessby Bradley James Bryant
TurboTax is a financial software application that helps individuals and small business owners to automate the tax-filing process at both the state and the federal level. An LLC (Limited Liability Corporation) is a type of company characterized by specific legal and tax perspectives. From a legal perspective, all liability is taken off the owner and placed on the entity. From a tax perspective, the IRS taxes the income of the entity as well as the owners. TurboTax has a special version available to taxpayers who own an LLC.
Step 1
Go to the TurboTax website. See Resources for a link.
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Select TurboTax Business. This version covers Multi-member LLCs (form 1065) and Partnerships (Form 1065).
Step 3
Determine if the software is the best option for your business. TurboTax Business is ideally suited for multi-member, LLC's with revenues of less than $250,000 and fewer than five employees.
Step 4
Input all the information about your LLC, including your address and number of employees. TurboTax will walk you through the process of reporting both income and expenses specifically for an LLC.
Print out copies and e-file through Turbo-tax or file your return through the IRS by mail when finished.
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Cybercriminals Shift Focus to Retail Sector
Cybercriminals have shifted their focus from financial markets to the retail sector, according to the NTT 2016 Global Threat Intelligence Report. In fact, retailers expect nearly three times as many attacks as the financial sector.
The report is based off of data compiled in 2015 from 8,000 NTT Group security companies, including Dimension Data, Solutionary, NTT Com Security, NTT R&D, and NTT Innovation Institute (NTTi3). The report analyzed 3.5 trillion security logs and 6.2 billion attacks.
"Retail companies are becoming increasingly popular targets as most process large volumes of personal information, including credit card data, in highly distributed environments with many endpoints and point-of-service devices. Such diverse environments can be difficult to protect," explained Matthew Gyde, Dimension Data's Group Executive-–Security.
The study also found:
- While 65% of attacks originated from IP addresses in the United States, they could actually be located anywhere in the world. Hackers have started to use low-cost and geographically strategic infrastructures that can mask their point-of-origin.
- Last year, there was an 18% increase in malware across all industries except for the education sector.
- Malware attacks are becoming more frequent and complex. While organizations are developing sandboxes, software that examines suspicious code in a protected environment, malware developers are developing anti-sandbox techniques.


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Book-To-Film adaption Freak Show has cast Alex Lawther in the lead role.
Freak Show also stars Bette Mildler as Muv, AnnaSophia Robb, Ian Nelson and Lorraine Toussaint. The book summary:
Billy Bloom is gay, but it's mostly theoretical, as he hasn't had much experience. When he has to move to Florida, he can't believe his bad luck. His new school is a mix of bible belles, amberzombies, and football heroes — none of which are exactly his type.
Billy's efforts to fit in and stand out at the same time are both hilarious and heart warming.
The film is set begin production at the end of the month.
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Some would regard this as an upper body exercise. I look at this exercise more as a core stability exercise. Proper execution of will invole resisting extension and rotation of the lumbar spine as the loaded arm returns to the starting position.
For all the meatheads looking for a chest pump while blowing through a set of partial reps with too much weight…go back to the Nautilus machine.


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Tiffany Lange is a puppet designer, graphic designer and children's book illustrator. Based in Chicago, Illinois, she works at VonOrthal Puppets as an artist and teacher. Tiffany has been collaborating with VonOrthal Puppets since 2000, and has co-designed several successful shows including The Yellow Wallpaper at Links Hall, The Point at the Old Town School of Folk Music, Gossamer performed at the Vittum Theater in collaboration with Adventure Stage Chicago and Berwyn Avenue at the Raven Theatre.
Tiffany has a bachelor's degree in fine art and biology from Clemson University and a master's degree in medical illustration from the University of Illinois at Chicago. Tiffany spent 10 years as an art director and creative director in healthcare advertising within the Publicis network.
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Southwest Virginia law blog.
Wednesday, July 28, 2010
On Guy Tower
When The Virginia Bar Association hired Guy Tower as executive director, they got the right man, and so it's sad news to read that
he is retiring
, but happy news for him. Not many people can do so many things well, as the job requires and as he did, with good humor. I'm glad my time on the VBA board was while he was there.
Here he is on the left, with three other of my favorites - Patricia Epps, Judge Winship Tower, and John Epps.
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Stylish yet rustic
With chic interiors offset by warm lighting and friendly service, this restaurant and 'wine workshop' has it all. There's plenty of wood on display that conveys an ethereal sense of earthiness right here in the heart of London. In keeping with its name, the bar offers 15 reds and an equal number of whites for you to choose from. Connoisseurs can opt for fine selections from the Collector's List, a discreet inventory from private collectors.
Fine meals
A typical meal here is three courses of the finest seasonal produce made to perfection by an experienced team under the guidance of chef and owner Agnar Sverisson. Admittedly, the restaurant is known for its finesse at seafood. The exceptional bar menu compares well with any of the fine dining destinations in London.
While most might balk at the thought of bringing a wine bar into a fine dining restaurant, 28-50 Degrees excels at it without compromising on either.


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11 Ways To Set Yourself Up For A Stress-Free Day
We've all had that feeling of having woke up on the wrong side of the bed, which can set the tone for your entire day if you let. Here are 11 simple steps that will help you to better prep for your mornings, and eliminate a stressful start to your day:
1. Prepare your outfit.
It may seem like an annoying and tedious task, but think about how much more annoying and even stressful it is to take care of this simple task under the time constraints of the morning. Having picked out your outfit and prepped it (i.e., iron) the night before will have you waking up feeling organized and ready to take on your day!
2. Pre-set the coffeemaker.
Are you the type that can't have a full conversation until you've gotten your morning cup of joe? Prepare your coffeemaker's settings so that you can wake up to the smell of your favorite brew, and have it ready as soon as you are!
3. Prep your lunch.
If you like to save money and time, make your lunch the night before. It may seem juvenile, but running out the door and only having to grab your already made lunch in your grown up (or Hello Kitty) lunch box makes your day just a little be easier, and likely healthier!


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When we read this article about certain pain that men should never ignore, we were immediately drawn to the part about leg pain. Since it is DVT awareness month, we thought we would share just one story of how DVT can be a painful and fatal reality if ignored. Here's an excerpt:
"No man likes to be called a wimp by his buddies, but ask yourself what you would rather hear: 1) "I always knew that deep down he was a hypochondriac," while your buds snicker behind your back. Or, 2) "Yeah, he was one tough guy to be able to ignore that kind of pain," while they sniffle over your coffin.
Remember David Bloom, the NBC reporter? He felt a pain behind his knee after being wedged in an armored vehicle for hours on end while covering the Iraq war. He was told to go to a doctor. He didn't. He died in 2003 from a pulmonary embolism caused by deep-vein thrombosis at age 39.
Bloom tried to tough out one of the eight pains every man ignores at risk of death or permanent injury. Let's take his particular pain first:
- 1. Leg pain with swelling. Maybe you've been crammed in a tight seat for six or more hours like Bloom, and one of your calves is swollen and really hurts. There's a possibility the blood that pools in your lower legs has formed a clot known as deep-vein thrombosis. Don't rub your leg. "It can send a big clot running up to your lung, where it can kill you," Dr. John Stamatos, told Men'sHealth.com. See a doctor, who can dissolve the clot with drugs, or sometimes put a filter in your veins to stop the clot."
Via: MensHealth.com.
If you have questions about yours or a loved one's vein health, call Reno Vein Clinic to set up a complementary consultation (775) 329-3100.


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Senior Session for Riley
Riley is a Senior graduating from Casa Robles this year. We celebrated his upcoming next chapter with a session in Old Folsom last week.
I had never met Riley before but know his mom, Heather. I found him to be charming and sweet, although I'm sure no teenage boy wants to be called sweet by one of his mom's friends. He definitely has an "edgy" edge to him too that made him fun and easy to photograph, a cool swagger, comfortable in his own skin. But underneath you get that the essence of him is… sorry… yeah, sweet.
I tried to capture all the sides of Riley: sweet and savory.
Here are some of my faves.
Limited Availability this Fall
I have limited spots available through November 24th for sessions. Please get in touch soon if you would like to schedule a session for your graduating Senior, or your family this Fall.


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From the mountain that surrounds it each one of it's stones was pulled by horse or rolled by local people. Built by Rev. Lee Woodward in 1924 and 1925, after serving as a medical missionary to China , he retired here to Orkney Springs..
A dug out stone used by the Indians to grind corn is the baptismal font.