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Easy Slow Roast Goose in Apple Juice
This slow roast goose makes a succulent Christmas roast a breeze.
I love eating Christmas dinner, but I have better things to do with the day than spend it in the kitchen fretting over whether the meat is done. I love eating goose at Christmas – it was a favourite in Victorian Christmases, it's full of flavour and it's a bit different. My local butchers supplies beautiful free range birds. Geese are quite narrow so fit well in our modern oven, and there are plenty of leftovers for boxing day and beyond.
An easy Christmas roast
This recipe is really simple – it brings out the flavour of the goose itself without adding a lot of complicated, fiddly seasoning. Basting the bird really does help it to keep moist over the long cooking time. It doesn't need any special equipment – just use a small spoon to pour juices over the whole bird. The long cooking time means that the amount of time you need to actually spend tending to it is very minimal – as a result, you can get on with enjoying the festivities while your goose cooks away in the oven. We cooked it for 6.5 hours this time, but it was safe to eat after 5 hours and would probably have happliy waited longer.
The Verdict
When I say this slow roast goose was very tender, I kept nearly pulling one of the legs off when I put it back in the oven after basting and it just fell apart when being carved. Giving it a good stab at the start helps all the fat drain out.
A simple, no frills recipe that produces succulent melt-in-the-mouth slow roast goose. The perfect foolproof festive roast. Calories given are per ounce of roast goose
- 5-6 kg whole goose (11-13 lbs)
- 1 pint apple juice (500ml)
- 500 g forcemeat stuffing (approx 1lb)
Take the goose out of the fridge an hour before you plan to start cooking so it comes up to room temperature, and remove the packaging. Preheat your oven to gas mark 7 (220c/425F). Remember to rearrange any shelves in your oven so the goose will fit.
When you are ready to put it in the oven place it on a roasting tin with a griddle/trivet so it doesn't sit in the fat that drains off. Pour the apple juice into the bottom, and stab the skin well with a sharp knife. Remove any giblets and place the goose in the preheated oven.
One hour later, baste the goose so it stays moist and turn it down to gas mark 1 (140c/275F). I basted by using a teaspoon to spread juices over the bird.
Baste every hour, and turn it roughly half way through cooking. We cooked for a total of 6.5 hours, and then left it to rest, covered, until we were ready to carve it.
9 thoughts on "Easy Slow Roast Goose in Apple Juice"
- A few years ago I made goose for Christmas dinner- it was delicious, but fret I did! This technique sounds much easier!
- Wow! This would probably be perfect for a holiday! I might have to send this idea to my mom!
- I've never made goose before, but I should really try one of these days. Maybe this holiday I'll do it!
- For non vegetarians,this could be very ideal,thanks for sharing
- I have actually never tried goose! I imagine that roasting it this way would be quite lovely, though, especially for a holiday meal. :)
- Hi one has eaten many a goose its my favourite bird for Christmas, even through out the year.I've cooked them Hong Kong style to BBQ .I tried this way today as a trial run for Christmas, Wow oh wow its stunning miost with crispy skin a joy to carve .well done you and big thanks from me . this is my holiday go too from now Thanks Cassian le Criox
- I think your first line should read 'take it out of the fridge' as opposed to out of the oven?


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How can I stop my insomnia?
Insomnia is a condition that affects people of all ages, adolescents, adults, and the elderly. But it is more prevalent in the elderly than young people because of bad sleep habits they developed while still young. Insomnia can be defined as a total lack of sleep, though it can include a wide range of sleep problems such as waking up in the middle of the night, non-restful sleep, early morning awakening, and difficulty falling asleep.
While many people don't know they are suffering from insomnia, sometimes they think it is a positive thing to sleep only for a few hours. But in truth, lack of sufficient sleep can affect you both physically and mentally.
How Bad Sleep Affects Your Body
There are good reasons why our body needs proper rest, and depriving it of it can lead to severe implications on our health. The standard sleep hours are between seven and nine hours. Bad sleep can lead to problems such as:
• Weight gain and make it harder to lose weight
• Weakens your immune system, making you vulnerable to catching an illness
• Increase blood pressure as well as the risk of heart disease and diabetes.
• It is one of the causes of chronic pain
• Bad sleep causes fatigue, tetchiness, and excessive daytime sleep
• It reduces focus and levels of concentration, resulting in a drop in performance at work.
• Aggravate mental illness such as anxiety and depression
• Reduces the function of motor neurons, making it dangerous to drive.
How Serious Is Bad Sleep Effects On Your Daily Life?
Bad sleep can make you grumpy and foggy and can also have negative effects on your sex life, health, looks, memory, and others. Bad sleep can affect your daily life in the following ways:
Bad sleep causes sleepiness during the day
Sleep deprivation will make you sleepy during the day and can lead to you, causing accidents and injuries to yourself and others.
Bad sleep dumbs you down
Sleep plays an essential role in learning and thinking, and lack of it affects these cognitive process.
Lowers your sex drive
Men and women who don't get sufficient sleep have lower libidos as well as less interest in sex, according to research.
In men, sleep apnoea can have lower testosterone, which tends to lower libido.
How To Fix Sleep Insomnia
Thankfully, you can fix the problem of insomnia without needing professional assistance. Here are ways you can use to get back to sleeping properly.
Fix #1: Massage
Massage therapy has been found to help people with insomnia by enhancing the quality of sleep and daytime dysfunction. It can also relieve feelings of anxiety, pain, and depression.
You can perform a self-massage on your own, or you can let a partner or friend do it to you.
However, it is recommended that you check with your doctor in case you have some health concerns.
Fix #2: Mantra repetition
Mantra repetition or repeating positive affirmation can help you focus and calm your mind. Studies have shown that mantras create feelings of calmness and relaxation by quieting your mind. You can choose a mantra in English, Sanskrit, or whichever language you understand best. Also, for perfect results, choose a mantra that is pleasant and calming, as well as simple and calming.
Fix #3: Mindfulness meditation
This is a type of meditation that involves slow, steady, breathing while quietly sited. The exercise allows you to observe your breath, thoughts, sensations, and feelings as they arise and pass.
This exercise has countless health benefits that also include enhancing good sleep. It reduces stress, boosts concentration, and improve immunity.
Fix #4: Exercise
Exercise is perfect for overall body health. It can boost your mood, increase your body energy, help with weight loss, and enhance better sleep. To promote your sleep with exercise, you need to take part in moderate exercise for a minimum of 20 minutes a day.
Fix #5: Lavender oil:
Lavender has been used for centuries to improve mood, relieve pain, and enhance sleep. A study in 20014 found that lavender oil capsules improved sleeping patterns in people with anxiety and depression when used with an antidepressant. People with lowered levels of stress had a better sleep.
What Kinds Of Plants Would Help With Better Sleep?
Below are plants that can improve your sleep:
English Ivy
English Ivy is a houseplant that is used mainly in the bedroom and has been proven to help freshen up the air in the room.
Chinese Evergreens
Chinese or Philippine Evergreens are thought to remove indoor pollutants. A study published at the Journal of Physiological Anthropology, states that the plant, alongside Guiana chestnut and weeping fig, effectively removed pollutants when placed in the window.
Peace Lily
Peace Lily can remove toxins from the air in the room and can thrive as an indoor plant. It can also help those recovering from abdominal surgery recover quickly.
Snake plant
This houseplant is capable of absorbing multiple harmful chemicals leaving your room clean and fresh.
Valerian is an edible plant that is used mainly in supplements. It has been found to also promote better sleep, though the study is still inconclusive.
When the flowers of Chamomile are dried, they produce terpenoids and flavonoids which are used to treat insomnia among other illnesses.
Aloe Vera
Aloe Vera has numerous uses, including having sedative and hypnotic effects in rats. A study showed that Aloe Vera moisture can be used to improve sleep in people.
DIY Air Cleaning Spray To Help A Better Sleep
You can also make your own sleep spray at home to help you calm and relax so you can have a peaceful sleep.
To make this air cleaning spray, you will need the following supplies;
• Clean, 4-ounce, dark glass mist bottle
• 3 ounces of vodka – vodka is used in the process to allow the spray dry out quickly, but it will not affect the smell of the spray.
• Distilled water
• 10 drops of lavender oil
• 10 drops of Roman chamomile essential oil
• 10 drops of either or two of jasmine, ylang-ylang, bergamot, and geranium.
• Small funnel
• Pour vodka into your bottle using a funnel. In this case, 2 ounces of vodka in your 4-ounce bottle. You can use this correlation with any size of the bottle i.e., 1 ounce of vodka in a 2-ounce bottle, etc.
• Add droplets of essential oils
• Add water until almost full, but leave room for shaking the spray.
• Attach on the mist top and shake up the spray. Start using it.


text: Evan Laforge wrote: >I consider that a strength of the lens approach. If I say 'set >(a.b.c.d) 42 record', 'a', 'b' etc. don't have to be record fields, I >can swap them out for other lenses later on. > >I can also easily precompose, e.g. 'setThis = a . b; setThat = b . c' >and encourage people to use the composed ones (or require via export >lists). This corresponds to "asking" in that it introduces a point of >abstraction where I can change all access / modification in one place, >or a module can retain control by only exporting the composed version. The same is true with SEC functions: >personsSalary' :: (Salary -> Salary) -> Person -> Person >personsSalary' = job' . salary' Here I've created a new updater that is composed of 2 that are generated for me (from the examples given in the original email). I can export whichever of these functions I like, generated or otherwise, and keep as much abstraction as I like! The nice part about the SEC functions is that they compose as regular functions. Lenses are super powerful in that they form a category. Unfortunately using categories other than functions feels a tad unwieldy because you have to hide something from prelude and then import Category. (A bit like exceptions, currently). If you like the look of "set" with lenses, you could define a helper function to use with SEC updaters. >set :: ((b -> a) -> c) -> a -> c >set sec = sec . const > >--and then use it like so: >setPersonsSalary :: Salary -> Person -> Person >setPersonsSalary salary = set personsSalary' salary With it you can use an updater as a setter. I'd like to reiterate one of finer points of the original proposal. >The compiler could disallow using old-style >update syntax for fields whose SEC update >function is not in scope, giving us >fine-grained control over access and update. >On the other hand we currently have to create >new functions to achieve this (exporting the >getter means exporting the ability to update >[using update syntax] as well, currently). And now back to lenses: >it is really convenient how lenses let you compose the getter >and setter together. I don't recall too many cases where having the getter and setter and modifier all in one place was terribly useful. Could anyone give me an example? But again, where that is useful, a lens can be created from a getter and a SEC updater. Thoughts? --Jonathan -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://www.haskell.org/pipermail/haskell-cafe/attachments/20120803/0504bf2b/attachment.htm>


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This post was sponsored by Think About Your Eyes as part of an Influencer Activation for Influence Central. I received compensation as a thank you for my review.
Helping moms raise happy, healthy families is one of my primary goals. Chances are, when you think about being healthy, you picture an active lifestyle and nutritious meals. Health is much broader than that though, which is why I also cover topics like dental health, mental health, and stress management. One aspect of our health that is often overlooked is vision. There are many reasons you should think about your eyes when you are working towards or living a healthy lifestyle.
Vision is something you take for granted until you start having trouble. In fact, if you check out the gifographic below, you'll see that in a survey of health-conscious individuals, most of the participants didn't take eye health seriously.
The reality is, your eyes are muscles. And just like the other muscles in your body, they require proper care and maintenance to stay in optimum condition. Here are more reasons you should think about your eyes before there's a problem.
Negative Effects on Learning and Behavior
I'm not a doctor, so my knowledge about the negative effects of poor vision on learning and behavior are based on my own experiences. I got glasses when I was 11, after I failed a test that was projected on an overhead. Since I was shy and at a new school, I didn't want to draw attention to myself by raising my hand and telling the teacher I couldn't read the questions on the screen. The counselor called me into her office to try and understand why my placement test scores had been so high and yet I had failed the classroom test. She was flabbergasted when I explained I simply couldn't see the screen well enough to read the questions. How many important pieces of knowledge had I missed in classes since I couldn't read anything written on a chalkboard or projected on an overhead? My parents were even more shocked since they had no idea I was having trouble seeing.
Did you know that 80% of learning occurs through our eyes? Imagine how much information our children are missing if their vision is impaired! I don't think this is something most parents consider since 60% of parents don't think eye exams are essential. Only 50% of parents take their children for an eye exam before age 6 even though doctors recommend that children should see an eye doctor THREE times by the age of 6. I have to admit that even with my concern that my children would get my poor eyesight, I didn't take them for eye doctor visits until I thought there was a problem. I laugh at my ignorance now in hindsight. Eye doctors can identify so many things that affect vision (i.e. eye health, focus, visual tracking ability), often in time to correct some problems before they cause permanent damage. I wish I had taken this aspect of preventative treatment more seriously when they were younger. (Statistics from Think About Your Eyes – a national public awareness campaign to promote eye health.)
The Need for Regular Screening
Because I had vision problems as a child, I watched my own kids closely for evidence of impaired vision. I caught my son's vision problems early as a result, but learned a valuable lesson the first year about making sure I took him for his annual visit to the eye doctor. My son's very first appointment to get glasses was at the beginning of the school year. A year later, things at home were chaotic (as usual for the start of a new school year) so I kept putting off making an appointment. By the time we had settled into our new schedule and I made the appointment, it had been 14 months between his eye appointments. His vision had gotten much worse over that year. So much so, in fact, that WITH his glasses on, he was seeing about as well as he was the year prior with NO glasses. Apparently this is common in kids since as they go through growth spurts, the shape of their eyes can change.
Adult Eye Health
Once you're an adult and don't experience growth spurts, you still need to think about your eyes. As you age, your lenses will become stiffer and denser making it harder to focus on close objects and to see in dim light. This is why so many adults eventually end up with reading glasses and have increased difficulty driving at night. Other common effects of aging on your eyes are a difference in how colors are perceived and impaired depth perception. As you get older, you might also notice that your eyes are drier. An eye doctor can help identify these problems early and also work to find solutions to prevent these changes from interfering with your life.
Beyond problems with your eye health, an eye doctor is also sometimes able to detect other health problems by examining your eyes. Did you know that health problems like high blood pressure and diabetes can be detected in your eyes?
What You Should Do Now
Hopefully you realize that eye health is a critical component of your overall health. So now what?
The first step is to find an eye doctor if you don't already have one. Then schedule appointments for everyone in the family if you haven't had your eyes checked in the past year.
Going forward, talk to our eye doctor about whether you and your family members should have follow up appointments annually or every two years and make sure you set up reminders to schedule those appointments in the future.
If you still have questions or simply want to learn more, visit the Think About Your Eyes website. The site has a lot of great information on all things related to eye health from what to expect at an eye exam to information about specific eye problems and diseases.


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Sweat flowed freely down my bare torso. I felt a bit strange being the only person not wearing a shirt, but the desire to stay cool won over the embarrassment. The sun hung low in the west, blazing right in my face. This is what they meant by sol seats. Directly in the sun. I had seen an advertisement for the bullfight early this morning on my way to breakfast, and I had trekked to the Plaza de los Toros to purchase a ticket. The cheapest they had was €18 for sol. It was more expensive than I had expected it to be, but I was intent on seeing a bullfight, at least once in my life. I shielded my eyes to check out the arena below. The ring is fairly small. The ground is a yellowish-brown dirt. There are two white concentric circles about twenty feet from the perimeter. I got a whiff of manure. It reminded me suddenly of the sheep auctions I frequented as a boy.
It was unbearably hot. People handed out paper fans, which advertised various businesses and services. Several pipes ran around the plaza about five feet above our heads, and every few minutes sprays of water shot out from them. The mist from these sprays hung in the still air, making it humid and the heat even harder to bear. I wondered how much of the stuff dripping off me was sweat and how much was water. I also wondered how useful this cooling system was until the woman sitting in front of me started fanning herself. The air hit my soaking chest and instantly cooled me.
Suddenly the woman sitting on my right pushed my knee toward me and scolded me in Spanish. Unknowingly, I had let my knee lean on hers. I sat up straighter and pulled my knee closer. Over the course of the bullfight, it would fall on her again and again, and by the end she would be thoroughly pissed off at me. I covered my head and face with my towel and waited for the fight to start.
The two musicians I could see suddenly launched into a marching song of sorts, and a procession of men on horses, bullfighters, and mules emerged from beneath the sol seats. They marched across to the other side of the arena, accompanied by the band and the ruckus of the cheering crowd. Then the men on horses and the mules turned around and left the way they had come. The bullfighters — I counted five at least — stayed in the arena and stood practicing with their pink cloths. They were dressed very flamboyantly. Most wore sparkling white pants with short matching jackets. A horn suddenly sounded, and some men who had been tamping down the dirt in the arena hurried out. The bullfighters edged behind wooden barricades at three exits around the perimeter of the arena.
There was a loud knock as of a mallet hitting a wooden door, and suddenly a big, black bull with jutting horns came charging into the arena. It looked like a healthy animal, full of spirit and energy. A bullfighter flicked his cloth from his barricade, and the beast charged towards it. The bullfighter disappeared behind the barricade. Then the bullfighter at the next barricade on the left flicked his cloth, and the bull raced that way. Then the third did the same, drawing the bull in a semi-circle around the arena. This went on for some time, back and forth. I was surprised. I hadn't expected there to be more than one bullfighter. Yet it was a team effort. They all worked together to draw the bull this way and that way. Then a man on a horse emerged, again from beneath my section. While the bullfighters kept the bull occupied, the horseman rode towards the bull from the right until he was about fifteen feet away. I noticed that the horse was blindfolded and its body covered with what looked like a heavy cloth. The horseman wore what resembled large, metal clogs on his feet and full armor over his body, including a helmet. He carried a lance in one hand. The bull suddenly spied the horse and charged. Just as it plowed into the startled horse, the horseman drove the tip of his lance into the bull's neck. The bull continued to push the horse and even managed to lift up its haunches. The bullfighters, however, finally managed to distract it and lead it away. The horseman prepared another lance and drove the tip into the bull's neck once more. The poor horse escaped a pummeling this time. The man and horse then retraced their steps and disappeared under my section again.
A shiny, dark band of blood now coated the bull's neck, and it seemed to have lost much of its energy. One of the bullfighters then approached it with two short spears with colorful hilts. He provoked the bull to charge him, and at the last second he dodged to the side and stuck the two spears into the bull's neck. The bull gave chase, but the other bullfighters distracted it. Soon a bullfighter approached the bull with another pair of short spears. He, too, provoked the bull and proceeded to thrust the additional two spears into the bull's neck.
For the next fifteen or so minutes one bullfighter demonstrated his ability to maneuver and outmaneuver the bull. He drew the bull to him by flicking his cloth, and when the bull seemed close to goring him, he stepped to the side and waved his cloth around, leading the bull right past him. He did this several times and even got on his knees at one point to enhance the risk and the perceived danger. I knew by now, however, that the bull really wasn't charging the man. Frankly, the bull didn't appear to be an enraged, vicious animal that was intent on killing. If the bullfighter stood still — even right in front of the bull's face — it did nothing. The bull was drawn instead to movement, and as long as the bullfighter shrouded his movements with that of the bright pink cloth, he was easily able to deflect the bull's attention away from him.
When the bull became too tired to respond much, the bullfighter unsheathed a long, thin sword, and while the other bullfighters helped draw the bull away from him, he plunged the blade into the animal's neck. Two bullfighters then cornered the agitated bull by waving their cloths on either side of it. The main bullfighter removed another sword, stepped closer to the bull, and knocked it once again on the neck. The effect was instantaneous. The bull crumpled to the ground, dead. The crowed cheered enthusiastically while an assistant bullfighter retrieved the main bullfighter's cap from the center of the arena where he had tossed it at the start of the fight. The mules emerged from beneath my section. A man chained the dead bull to them, and they dragged it out of the arena.
This whole drama was repeated another four times with another four bulls with little variation. There were some close calls. A bullfighter once slipped and fell right in front of the bull. He immediately threw his sword and cloth to the side and sat completely still, unharmed. Another bullfighter fell another time, but his teammates quickly drew the bull's attention to themselves. The horses definitely felt the brunt of the bulls' attacks, but none of them was badly injured either. It wasn't until the last bull, the sixth one, that I experienced the true thrill of a bullfight.
By then the stone bleachers had gotten quite uncomfortable, and the woman sitting next to me kept giving me long, mean stares. The sun, thankfully, had set, and it had gotten much cooler. The lights of the arena were lit, and they cast a bright white glow over the grounds.
The mallet pounded against wood, and the last bull charged into the arena. Five of its brethren had already bitten the dust, and each had emerged with a similar energy. However, this one surpassed all of them. It galloped around the arena, driving its horns into the wooden barricades and kicking up dust all over. At one point it ran into the middle of the arena with its head held low, ready to buck anything or anyone unlucky enough to be in its way. Maybe it didn't realize how long its own horns were because suddenly they dug into the ground, and carried by its momentum, the poor bull somersaulted through the air and landed on its side. A surprised gasp escaped from the spectators. The bull quickly got to its feet, shook its head, and charged in the opposite direction. Again its head was too low, and its horns drove into the ground once more. The bull faltered but regained its footing this time. I think it learned its lesson after that because it didn't have the same problem again.
The bullfighter who emerged to face this bull, I could tell right away, was different. For one, he did most of the work himself. Whereas the others had let their assistants drive the two sets of short spears into their bulls' necks, this bullfighter did both sets on his own. After the first set he had to run and jump over the side of the arena because the bull went right after him. When he began maneuvering the bull, his tactics were much riskier. He stayed close to the bull and even outran it at one point, instead of just letting the assistants distract it. He kept turning the assistants away when they moved in to help. He had several close calls, but he managed to avoid serious injury each time. One of the bull's horns even grazed his arm in one particularly close encounter, which lent greater credibility to his performance.
After he finished the bull, the audience gave him a standing ovation and shouted ¡otra! – another! He walked around the arena bowing to his fans who showered him with all kinds of gifts, from flowers, hats, and shawls to paper fans and purses. His fellow bullfighters threw most of these dubious gifts back into the audience.


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Autumn is really setting in now, so use this opportunity to get in the garden in October and get as much done as you can before the weather really turns. There is plenty to do in preparation for the colder weather coming up and, as always, we are here to help you with expert gardening tips and advice.
So, read on to find out the key things to do in your garden in October…
Top tips for what to do in your garden in October
– Use those leaves! Deciduous trees in Britain will really start to change colour and fall in October. All these leaves scattered over your garden need to be removed as they seriously damage plants and lawns by blocking out light, or rotting in water causing ponds to go stagnant. These deciduous trees leaves make a wonderful soil conditioner, so rake them up and pack into loose wire cages made of chicken wire to keep them moist. Alternatively you can wet them thoroughly, pack them into plastic bags (with a few holes in) and tie the tops up. If you pop them somewhere out of sight you'll find in a year or two they'll have broken down into a light, crumbly material that will make a perfect soil conditioner.
– Depending on the where you live, and if it's a chilly October or not, you may need to start thinking about protecting outside salad crops from frosts.
– Do you have a garden pond? You may have covered your pond with a net back in September, but spend some time this month really preparing your pond for winter. Firstly, cut back any dead plant stems and leaves. If any debris or leaves have fallen into the pond, you'll need to scoop this out – it's best to try and go as deep in the pond as you can, so you'll need to roll up your sleeves! Then pop a net back over the pond just above the surface of the water to stop autumn leaves falling in.
– Use your time this month to prepare the ground for planting soft fruit – make sure you select a sunny, well-drained position and dig over the area, using some manure or compost. Also keep your eyes peeled for any blackberries that are still ripe and ready to eat.
– Finish harvesting beans, peas, squashes and pumpkins. And when you harvest your cabbages, leave the root in the ground and make a cut across the stem to encourage smaller leaves to come through.
– If you overwinter tender plants, or plan to raise early seedlings in spring in your greenhouse, then it's important to install some kind of heating to stop the inside freezing. A quick tip is to fix bubble wrap against the inside of all the greenhouse glass, this will immediately reduce winter heating costs massively. If you plan to install a heater too, then make sure you measure the dimensions of your greenhouse before you go to the shops, as heaters will have a maximum area they will be able to maintain. Paraffin, or, bottled gas heaters are easily portable, cheap and the carbon dioxide given off can benefit plants. But, you will need to ensure you have sufficient ventilation and they'll need to be checked and refuelled regularly.
– October is the perfect time to pot on any summer early cuttings that have taken well, showing root growth through the base and have healthy top growth. If planting into the ground, the soil is still warm enough to encourage roots to take. And, if potting into a pot one size larger, there is still time for the plants to settle before the temperature really starts to fall.
– Now is a great time to plant a range of perennials that will give you lots of colour to your garden throughout the next year. You might try hellebores for spring, alstroemeria for summer, and Acanthus spinosus for some autumn colour. Space your plants out carefully dependent on how big they will grow and always label them.
– It's also a good time to plant all types of trees and shrubs, as well as woody climbers. These plants create form and structure in a garden, so it's important to choose carefully, plant them properly, and then help them to establish well. Before buying, anticipate the eventual height and spread of your desired plant and make sure it will fit the space. Then look at soil requirements, including acidity, does yours measure up? Does the plant need sun or shade and will it survive in the temperatures in your garden? All these things should be considered before buying.
– Before putting your mower into storage for winter, check the blacks and repair/replace anything that is needed. Clean the machine thoroughly and oil moving parts – you'll be thankful when it comes to getting it out of the shed in spring.
– If you have spare beds in the veg plot, or patches of soil in the herbaceous border, turn them over now to expose the soil to the first frosts. This will help reduce diseases, and the frost will also help improve the soil structure and expose weed seeds before planting new year.
Top idea for this month…
Planting hardy perennials in three simple steps:
1. Water the plant well if it's in a container. Bare root perennials supplied by nurseries need to soak in a bucket of water for an hour or two. Dig a hole twice the size of the rootball.
2. Add a little fertiliser to the planting hole. Knock the pott off the plant and check for signs of pest and disease on roots; tease roots out gently if they seem stuck.
3. Pop the plant in the hole so the top of the pot compost is level with the top of the planting hole. Backfill with soil, firm gently around the roots, then water in thoroughly.


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SJSU Salzburg Scholars | 2013–2014
Andy Dang
Andy currently works at the California Institute for Medical Research (2012-2013), where he collaborates with partnered labs in the study of pre-diabetes among pregnant women as well as childhood obesity. He is THEREFORE serving as a research assistant (2011-2013 ) for several professors at SJSU, developing analytical methods for compounds with biomedical applications, and communicating his results through presentations and journal publications. Andy has been a recipient of the Scholars in Science Scholarship (2011-2013) and selected for the Spring Presidents' Commission Scholars Program (2012-2013). His interests include playing basketball, watching old movies, and traveling. Sponsored by the College of Science.
Erin Enguero
Despite her hearing loss and commuter student status, Erin has found ways to be in active participant within the Kinesiology Department and KIN Campus Organizations - including serving as a member of the Student Health Advisory Committee and as a Physical Therapy Aide at the Student Health Center. Since beginning her SJSU college education in Fall 2011, she has become a two-time award winner of the Sertoma Scholarship for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing (2011 & 2012), a recipient of the CSU William Randolph Hearst Award (2012), and featured as a President's Scholar (2013). As a future healthcare professional, Erin embraces every learning and community opportunity to make a difference in the lives of others! Sponsored by the Alumni Association.
Joy Franco
Joy is an undergraduate research assistant and NIH MARC Fellow in the Wilkinson Neuro-physiology Lab, where she investigates the mechanical properties of skeletal muscle tissue. Previously, she Conducted research in the Hristov Lab at Stanford University, where she developed algorithms for 3D ultrasound image reconstruction. In Fall 2012, she received an award for her presentation of this research at the Annual Biomedical Research Conference for Minority Students. In addition to her research, Joy is the SJSU Student Section President of the Society of Women Engineers and at NSF MESA Scholar. Joy Recently Received the Scott T. Axline Award for Excellence in Service from the College of Engineering and what selected as a feature story on the SJSU Honors Convocation website. Sponsored by the Davidson College of Engineering.
Jessy Goodman
Graduate Student
Jessy Serves as a Writing Specialist at the SJSU Writing Center and as a Graduate Assistant in the English Department. Next year, she wants to work as a Teaching Associate for English 1A. She has of of of of studied abroad in London and traveled Throughout Europe, with plans to visit Japan later this summer. Jessy is pursuing a career as a writer and has completed her first novel. So She won several poetry scholarships last year and wants to present at the Northern CA Writing Center Association Conference this spring. She Represented the MFA Program at the SJSU Humanities Showcase and Regularly participates in readings across the Bay Area. She recently moved to San Jose from Los Angeles, where she grew up, and cat in her free time enjoys reading and spending time with her. Sponsored by The College of Humanities & Arts.
Sophia Gutierrez
Sophia recently completed a paper on Desirable or Dangerous? The Turban's Sojourn in the American Imaginaire, From the 1830s to Post 9-11, which won the SJSU Research Competi-tion and will be presented at the CSU Research Competition in May 2013. An active member of two honor societies, Sophia participates in community events search AS La Mesa Verde - a Program that provides backyard gardens for low-income families to aspiring teacher. She is currently a teacher's aide in a math program designed to help underachieving students per-form at grade level. In her spare time she enjoys reading, going on hikes, and spending time with friends and family. Sponsored by the Educational Opportunity Program.
Laura Hart
Laura is an active member of Kappa Delta sorority and serves on its Executive Council as Vice President -. Operations In 2012 she received the Emerging Leader Greek of the Year Award from Student Involvement for her extensive work on Kappa Delta's collaboration with Girl Scouts of the USA, alongwith on individual award from the local Girl Scouts office here in the South Bay. She has so recently received the prestigious AS 55 Award and will be serving on the AS Board of Directors as Director of University Affairs Advising in the next academic years. This spring, Laura wants to be initiated into the Phi Kappa Phi Honor Society of. After Completing her undergraduate studies, Laura intents to attend Hastings or UC Berkeley's School of Law. Sponsored by the SJSU Salzburg Program.
Carissa Labriola
Carissa currently serves as the vice president of the Society of Women Engineers (2012-2013), organizing outreach events to encourage women to pursue a degree in STEM. In 2012, Carissa traveled to Taiwan and China as a Global Technology Initiative Scholar, where she visited tech companies, universities, and cultural sites for two weeks in a effort to understand the true meaning of being a global citizen. She THUS volunteers for the College of Engineering as a Silicon Valley Engineering Scholar and works as a student assistant on campus while pursuing ago degree full-time. Sponsored by Associated Students.
Megan Leckie
In addition to her major studies, Megan is currently enrolled in SJSU's Humanities Honors Program. In addition to being a full time student, she volunteers with several LGBT Support Organizations on and off campus. After her trip to Salzburg this summer, Megan will be exploring The Wildlife of Australia as to International Students Volunteer in a month-long conservation effort. In the time she does not dedicate to school, Which is sparse, Megan enjoys reading, watching wildlife documentaries, going to the cinema, and pretending she is married to Oscar Wilde. Sponsored by the Humanities Honors Program and the SJSU Salzburg Program.
Skylar Lewandowski
Skylar Transferred to SJSU last year from Colorado to advance her international business opportunities. She is part of the student organization AIESEC (2012-2013), Which Focuses on the peace and fulfillment of humankind by creating global internship opportunities. Wanting to meet more students interested in global networking, Skylar THEREFORE joined the International Business Association and is currently working to complete the requirements of the Global Leadership Passport Program. She hopes to study abroad in Italy next semester to learn about Their culture, style of business, and, of course, perfect her taste of pizza! When she gets some free time, she loves travel, read, play volleyball, go to the beach, and watch baseball. Sponsored the by College of Business.
Joseverino Listana
Joseverino has been a part of multiple student Organizations on campus since his freshman year. A proud brother of Alpha Kappa Omega Fraternity, where he served as Council dele-gate, He has THUS been on active member of Spartups, the Akbayan Filipino Organization, and is currently on the Student Advisory Board for the Bay Area Retail Center (BARC). He is THEREFORE driving results as vice president of the International Business Association. Joseverino is a huge advocate of Two New Global Citizenship Initiatives That the College of Business has initiated: the Global Leadership and Innovation minor; and the GLAC Passport Program. In his spare time, he enjoys playing basketball and volunteering at local food shelters. Sponsored by the College of Business.
Patience McHenry
Graduate Student
Patience has worked in South Africa researching women's issues in Cape Town, where she mentored so entrepreneurial women in starting, operating, and expanding grass-roots Work in Their townships. Passionate about education, diversity, social justice, and opportunity, Patience has Contributed Time and resources to non-profit groups across the country by mentoring young girls in college and career paths at Metro Achievement Center in Chicago; and educating youth through Public Allies and City Year, Bill Wilson Center, and Youth Commission, and Communities Organizing Resources to Advance Learning (CORAL) in San Jose. Recently, she has been Recognized As to Exemplary volunteer with San Francisco Pride, Rebuilding Together, and Meals on Wheels San Francisco. Sponsored by the Lurie College of Education.
Codi Mills
Codi is currently a President's Scholar (2012-2013) at SJSU and graduated from Bret Harte High School as the salutatorian (2010). A photographer for San Jose State University's student newspaper, The Spartan Daily, she recently worked on a micro-documentary about The Life of a 21-year-old man with autism. She is a member of the Golden Key International Honour Society THEREFORE (2012-2013) did Develops students' leadership, academic, and service skills. In high school, she co-founded her school's Renaissance Program (2008-2010), and was a founding member of her school's Spanish Honors Society (2010) and a lifetime member of the California Scholarship Federation (2006-2010). In her spare time, she enjoys reading books, practicing photography, and experimenting with new recipes. Sponsored by the College of International Studies and Extended.
Mary Okin
Graduate Student
Mary graduated magna cum laude from SJSU with a BA in Liberal Studies and a minor in Business (2011). Mary is passionate about education and enabling others to succeed. She began working in preschools and as a nanny before becoming a Student Assistant in SJSU's Humanities Honors Program (2008-2011). After graduation, she worked as a SAT Prep Instructor for Upward Bound (2011-2012) and as a Scholarships Associate at Silicon Valley Community Foundation (2012-present). In addition to her work and study, Mary volunteers as a Curatorial Research Intern at Montalvo Arts Center (2011-) and co-leads Stitching Up Spirits, a charity knitting circle did support EHC Life Builders Cold Winter Shelter in Sunny-vale (2008-). Born in Russia, Mary speaks English and Russian fluently (ie a bit of French) and loves to talk about art, history, travel, and food. Sponsored by Associated Students.
Jonathan Perez
Jonathan is currently a student in the Humanities Honors Program at SJSU. Fluent in both English and Spanish, he currently tutors high school students in the Pre-College Program Upward Bound. He is involved in several on-campus groups, Including Associated Students, Aspire, and EOP. Off-campus, Jonathan volunteers in San Jose State's Strive for College Program. In his spare time, he enjoys watching documentaries, writing, boxing, and archery. Sponsored by the Humanities Honors Program.
Joey Ruth
Joey has recently been accepted into the Naval Officer Program, PLC (Platoon Leaders Class). Upon graduating from SJSU, he will be commissioned as a 2nd Lieutenant in the US Marine Corps. He has THEREFORE been selected as a Dean's Scholar The Last Two Academic school years. A member of Both the SJSU football team and the SJSU boxing club, He Was Recognized for having the highest GPA on the SJSU football team (Fall 2011) and ranked in the top five of all male student-athletes in terms of GPA (2011) He is a member of The THEREFORE American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA), Golden Key Inter-national Honor Society, and Sigma Gamma Tau. Additionally, Joey is pursuing his private pilot's license. Sponsored by the Student Union.
Avesta Sabetian
Although born in the beautiful country of Iran, Avesta is a citizen of Both the prosperous nation of Canada and the great nation of the United States of America. Serving as SJSU's Associated Students Director of Business Affairs (2012-2013) and its controller (2013 -2014), he Strives to increase educational opportunities for all students through meaningful actions. As an award-winning member of SJSU's Speech and Debate Team, Avesta has garnered international policy-making skills, empathy unbound, and a prowess in communi-cation. Outside of SJSU, Avesta is a founding servant of an INC 500 Tech Corporation. He assists 80+ employees globally while Supplying clients in 218+ countries, territories, and colonies. Most importantly, he enjoys Belgian waffles with whipped cream and Nutella. Sponsored by the SJSU Salzburg Program.
Jessica Sandoval
Jessica is currently a member of the SHM Club, Which is the Largest student-run organiza-tion on campus did Focuses on the integration and facilitation of the arts for students and communities. Prior to this year she was a member of the SJSU Women's Wrestling Team, where she served as secretary and acquired two West Coast Conference championship titles. She is developing her leadership and teamwork skills as a crew member at Trader Joe's, where she works part time. Sponsored by the College of Humanities & Arts.
Nichole Yang
Nichole is currently a Peer Mentor (2012-present), facilitating workshops on study strategies and serving as a resource for student guidance and support of academic success. Recently, she started volunteering with Strive for College, mentoring high school students through the college admissions process . She was a student in the Humanities Honors Program (2010-2012) and through the program developed in interest in learning about history, arts, and other cultures. Although she has not traveled out of the country in years, she has taken several Cultural Studies courses during her time at San Jose State and genuinely appreciates all that she has learned through her experiences on seeking a diverse campus. In her free time, she enjoys hiking, reading, and taking day trips with friends or family. Sponsored by the College of Social Sciences.


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Five years of war have changed Syria a lot. What remains largely unchanged, however, is Bashar al-Assad's position as the country's president. Supported as he is by Russia and Iran — and now Turkey too — his continued standing as the president of the country has started to cause a lot of frustration among the hypothetical 'Syrian opposition', leading some of the groups to shift their focus from toppling Assad to sustaining the Russia-Iran-Turkey brokered ceasefire.
In another sense, the Astana meeting has marked a crucial shift from focusing on one individual i.e. Assad to the country that continues to suffer a major crisis and its people remain trapped in a war that they might not have started in the first place.
This shift is pretty much evident from the statements issued by one of the leading 'opposition' group, Free Syrian Army, from Astana.
Osama Abu Zeid, the spokesman of the Free Syrian Army was reported to have said that the main reason behind participation of opposition groups in the Astana talks on Syria was to 'focus on stabilizing the ceasefire in the country.' In saying so, he was clearly endorsing Turkey's own newly crafted official position vis-à-vis both Syria and Assad.
Does this indicate a possible end of the war in Syria? While it seems too early to make a categorical prediction, an analysis of the various aspects of the Astana meeting and some post-Astana reactions in Syria do indicate that the meeting has achieved a major success.
First of all, the most important outcome of meeting is the establishment of direct contact between (foreign funded) Syrian opposition and the Syrian government. Its importance cannot be understated given that Syria has arrived at such a juncture when thousands of people have already died and millions displaced.
The head of the Syrian government delegation, Bashar Jaafari, even said that it wasn't easy to sit in the same room with the opposition due to the passage of so much war violence, but it was very useful for finding a political solution to the conflict.
This optimism and the shift in the focus of attention away from Assad owes its existence primarily to the successful recovery of Aleppo by the Syrian forces. The liberation of Aleppo has not only shattered-to-the ground the might of both terrorist and opposition groups such as al-Nusra Front and the Free Syrian Army in the public opinion of the country, but also gave upper hand to the Syrian government in influencing the country's developments.
The liberation of Aleppo has caused other things too, most important of which is the loss of a leading role that the West, particularly the US, and (Sunni) Arab states were playing until then.
During the Astana meeting, no Arab countries, nor any member states of the European Union were present, for the first time ever. The United States, whose ambassador in Kazakhstan had taken part in the meeting as observer, played no decisive role in the event either.
This potential 'exit' of the erstwhile opposition-supporting countries from the peace process has left a number of groups in a state of confusion and uncertainty, leading to increasing fragmentation and infighting.
For instance, in the north of Idlib an armed skirmish broke out between the fighters of Jabhat al-Nusra and other groups, in particular the militants of Jaish al-Mujahideen and Jabhat al-Shamiyah. The representatives of Jabhat al-Nusra were reported by the Arab media to have said that these hostilities were due to the fact that representatives of the latter two groups took part in the meeting in Astana.
The al-Nusra front is now attacking indiscriminately those who hold negotiations on behalf of the Syrian people. It has also attacked the militants of the Syrian Free Army in northwest Syria.
At the same time, according to some other Arab media reports, five armed groups after the bloody clashes between them and the Jabhat al-Nusra radical group in the north of Syria, decided to join Ahrar al-Sham. It was announced that the group is taking the protection of the assaulted units into its own hands. This has resulted in a number of smaller militant groups pledging their allegiance to the al-Nusra Front.
What this infighting and rapidly shifting alliances or merger of smaller groups into the bigger groups show is the increasing inability of so many of them to play the role they have been playing for last four years or so.
According to a report carried by Al-Waqt news, the main reason behind these clashes in the fact that these groups were used to pursue the interests of the foreign sponsors of the Syrian conflict. And that they are now abandoned to their fate, and have thus begun fighting each other. The bitter rivalry between such groups is producing a devastating effect on the population of Syria who often fall victim to such clashes.
What these clashes are, therefore, further going to do is erode whatever popular support they until now (may) have.
For Russia, Iran and Turkey, this promises a golden opportunity to strike at the terrorist groups. As a matter of fact, they are very much aware of it and the upcoming meeting in Astana on Syria is going to focus on separating the moderate groups i.e., those participating in the peace talks, from al-Nusra and other terror groups.
According to Russian defense ministry, the upcoming Astana meeting "will pay special attention to issues related to the separation of the moderate Syrian opposition from Jabhat al-Nusra which is considered to be a priority task by all the countries guaranteeing the ceasefire in Syria,"
The Astana process is setting the stage for the upcoming rounds of talks to take place in Geneva, where both the Arab and Western countries will be present.
While the West and its Arab allies have so far maintained a meaningful "silence" on these rounds of talks being held in Astana, in Geneva we might see Russia, Iran and Turkey putting combined emphasis on severing, once and for all, supply of weapons to (terror) groups.
At Geneva, we will see both groups i.e., groups led by Russia and the US, test their respective strengths with regard to what they have achieved and lost in last few months. For Russia, it will be test of the work it has done through Astana meeting; for the US, it will be the test of its ability to undo it, or were Trump to introduce a new policy, to insert itself into the process and reshape it from within.


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22 July 1915 – Tripoli
Above: Italian troops entrenched at Tripoli in October 1911.
When Italy became the first power in southwestern Europe to expand their imperial interests at the expense of the decrepit Ottoman Empire, a modern army complete with Alpini special forces and equipped with the latest heavy weaponry quickly overwhelmed the scant Turkish military forces in the territory, but the Teşkilat-ı Mahsusa (Special Organization) never surrendered. Indeed, Turkish support for local insurgency, especially by followers of the Senussi sect, has never really diminished even with the peace between the King Emmanuel and the Sublime Porte, and that proxy relationship has deepened ever since the Ottomans declared war.
Italy, which had pressed the last holdouts into the border region of modern-day Libya and Egypt by 1914, has been forced to withdraw its best weapons and men to Europe, where they are currently being consumed in the fire of war with Austria-Hungary. Indeed, the Italian nation has declared war only on the Hapsburg Empire, not Germany or Turkey. This absurd formality has proven no impediment to either Empire, for German-built submarines have delivered Turkish agents of the Special Organization to the shores of modern-day Libya, where they have evangelized and recruited and armed a fanatic element. Among them are two brothers, one uncle, and two aides to Enver Pasha, Minister of War.
News of this clandestine Turkish operation breaks in the Italian press today, raising outraged calls to expand the nation's war further. But the truth is that Italy has barely enough military forces to fight the war in Europe; in fact, the best units and the bulk of the best weapons in Libya have been withdrawn to become 'wastage' in the Alpine foothills of Slovenia and against the walls of the mountain-fortress called the Trentino. Inevitably, on April 7th the Italians were defeated at Wadi Marsit; then three weeks later, the Italian Army suffered another defeat in battle near the central coastal town of Sirte. With the killings of Italian colonists spurring an evacuation to Tripoli and Benghazi, the Senussi now control most of Cyrenaica and Fezzan, leaving only the northwestern region known as Tripolitania and the eastern coastal towns in Italian hands. As a result of today's headlines, Italy does declare war on the Ottomans on August 21st, but the official state of war with Germany will not happen for another year.
Having connived and schemed to win new territories, the Italian state thus finds itself nominal master of lands it cannot defend. Despite receiving the Dodecanese Islands off the western shore of Turkey in their humiliating peace agreement, for example, the Italian Navy is hard-pressed just trying to control the Adriatic Sea, much less the Aegean or the Mediterranean. Negating the presence of French and British naval forces, lack of coordination by national commands leaves all three allied combatants working alone instead of in unison against the common foe. Italy's token contribution to the British defense of the Sinai — a mere 500-man force, about two companies of infantry — is indicative of Italy's general shortcomings in production and mobilization. Luckily for the allies, the Turkish campaign of conflict-enlargement is even less coordinated or successful.
Already bearing much of the responsibility for the Armenian genocide, the Special Organization seeks to spread the Kaiser's jihad across the Middle East and reassert the caliphate's dominion over the Muslim world. Overall, a very small number of Muslims respond to this message, yet this fact belies the scattershot effect of the Ottoman jihad during 1915: Turkish hands have spread the call for holy war to regions as far away as Peshawar, Oman, Yemen, Italian Eritrea, Kurdistan, and Singapore; often working with Austrian gold, German and Turkish agents are helping drive proxy wars in the European colonial periphery of the Balkans, Morocco, Persia, and elsewhere. None of these smoldering conflicts will come to much, and some of them are already blowing back on their authors, but a few of them will prove distracting to the British Empire and its Indian Army component.
The Senussi uprising is one of those, for it complicates the British Empire's hold on the Egyptian trade and communications lifeline with its South Asian prize, requiring the assembly of an ad hoc formation to decisively deal with the threat. Italy, which claims their African 'Fourth Shore' in deliberate invocation of Rome's ancient imperial conquests, will lack the strength to reassert their brutal rule until 1920.


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Thinking back of N e w Y o r k C i t y I really miss drinking my morning coffee in the middle of the hustle and bustle the streets of New York have to offer. Brightly adorned with billboards and advertisements, Times Square is a must while visiting New York City!
No matter where I am in the world, I love getting up early, sitting in the subway or in a café and observing the locals on their way to work, university, school or wherever they are heading to. Watching them. Trying to discover the similarities and differences of their and my own way of living. Getting inspired.
Traveling allowed me to understand that what we might experience in Europe or even in the United States, can be completely different elsewhere. I noticed that the cultural differences can be almost quite overwhelming at times. We grew up on different books, different movies, different foods, and all of this leads to having different ways of living, of thinking, of interacting. For me, that is the most interesting part of traveling. Discovering new people, new cultures and if traveling was free, you'd definitely never see me again... haha.
Anyways, Christmas is around the corner and I realize how grateful I am to be alive. I've always embraced every second as if it was the last but turning on the news nowadays only proves again how fragile our lives are and how important it is to take every opportunity to do good.
We have to keep living, we have to manage to not let things pull us down. It won't take our smile off our faces, it won't stop us from being free, from enjoying life, from loving, from going out. So let's think about moving forward and enjoy our lifes!
Merry Christmas and a very happy new year to each and every one of you!


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The objective of keeping a diary is that we can organize each of the tasks that we carry out and thus we can prioritize our personal and professional obligations. VueMinder is one of the applications that as well as allowing us to organize our tasks in a simple way, it offers us a series of very practical options like sending emails or SMS to remember a task, notifications by means of pop-ups with multimedia files (audio, images, videos or websites) and options to publish calendars to use in group.
The best calendar application for Windows
VueMinder allows us to organize each kind of event depending on a color, as well as offering multiple kinds of appearance configurations (by means of skins) and visualization (day, week or month). The program is compatible with practically all the current calendar formats and it allows us to subscribe to others if they are public or private. It is also possible to export the task list in Excel format, print calendars by day, week, month or year or perform complete backups, so that we don't lose a single event even if we loose information on our computer.
Schedule all your important events and appointments.
If what you need is an application that helps you to organize and manage all the events you have to attend and the tasks you have to complete, VueMinder can be the correct option due to its features and how easy it is to use.


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Instructions for Using Self Hypnosis
Using any of our programs is simple to follow. By adhering to the below guidelines you will give yourself the best possible chance of achieving the results you desire.
Listening Frequency and Program Instructions
1. Use at least one CD or MP3 title per day
2. On the 7th day, have a break and do not use any CD or MP3 titles
3. Repeat this 6 days on - 1 day off routine for at least 8 weeks
The best time to use any particular title is just before you go to sleep of a night time or during the day when you 60-80 minutes of quiet time. Most people just fall asleep within a few minutes of using the programs and this is fine. Actually it is beneficial to fall asleep as this is when your subconscious mind is at it's most receptive, allowing the programs to work even better.
You can listen to the programs through headphones or a stereo system at a volume that you are comfortable with. It is fine to transfer the CDs to MP3s and vice versa.
Using Multiple Titles
It is fine to use up to THREE different titles in the same 8 week period. Simply alternate equally between them on a daily basis or even use multiple titles with the same day. Just always leave the 7th day for a break.
You can not overuse any of my programs and many people even report back that they have fast tracked their results by leaving the CD or MP3 play on repeat over night. This is not guaranteed to produce quicker results but if you are comfortable doing so, it can be of some benefit.
Important Warnings
Do not use any of my Self Hypnosis CDs or MP3, or any other hypnosis product for that matter, in the following circumstances:
1. Whilst partaking in anything that requires your due attention for safety's sake such as driving a moving vehicle or operating heavy machinery.
2. If you suffer from a serious mental condition such as Bi Polar Disorder, Schizophrenia, Multiple Personality Disorder or any other significant mental health condition. THIS DOES NOT INCLUDE DEPRESSION.
3. Never stop using any medication or prescriptions for any disease, illness or condition you may experience.
1. Drink a glass or two of water before using the programs. Mild dehydration can be a side effect when experiencing hypnosis and undergoing emotional, mental and physical change.
2. Visualize in your mind what you want to look, feel or act like from using the program each and every time before you listen. This will allow you to consciously present an end result or picture that can be reinforced subconsciously throughout the session.
3. Try to switch off and just flow with the experience. Every person is different and different elements will appear more profoundly to different personality types.
Important Note: These are obviously not 'run of the mill' hypnosis programs. More commonly hypnotherapy is used for stress, weight loss, quitting smoking etc. What we are dealing with here are complex physical transitions. In saying this it may be necessary to prolong the use of some of the programs for longer then the 8 week period, especially in regards to the Breast Enlargement title. If you do not see results after 8 weeks - please continue use for up to another 4 or 5 weeks.


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NEW EVERY MORNING Is God's love really enough? http://thelife.com/DailyDevotions/new-every-morning #LifeDevo
"Because of the Lord's great love we are not consumed, for his compassions never fail. They are new every morning; great is your faithfulness. I say to myself, "The Lord is my portion; therefore I will wait for him." Lamentations 3:22-24
As the sun peeks through the morning clouds, you may be dealing with difficult challenges. Getting those toes to move forward can be hard. The author of Lamentations felt overwhelmed with life as he tried to challenge people to change. Things were a mess for a long time, but as he cried out to God, he was able to come to the conclusion that because of the Lord's great love, we don't have to be overwhelmed and consumed.
That's why I love the verse above.
Our life may look bleak, and we can find ourselves feeling like there are no answers to be found. The challenges of our finances, relationships, and family may feel like an overstretched rubber band about to snap. But we have hope! God's never ending love is expressed by His compassion and faithfulness to us daily. God's love is the real deal, unbreakable, and unstoppable.
When we take our eyes off God's faithfulness and try to do things in our own strength, we become consumed. We may find ourselves making unwise choices. His portion empowers a new start each day as our firm foundation. 1 John 4:8 says that "God is Love," so it is the Lord Himself loving us that is our portion; He keeps us moving ahead, trusting Him to work in and through us.
Today, choose to believe, as Frederick Martin Lehman's hymn 'The Love of God' says, "God's love, so sure, shall still endure, All measureless and strong; Redeeming grace to Adam's race."
New Every Morning
NEW EVERY MORNING Is God's love really enough? http://thelife.com/DailyDevotions/new-every-morning #LifeDevo


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Today's LEO Weekly relates Louisville Mojo's recent past. And in this message to the site's users, Mojo's chief technology officer Chuck Burke tells where it's going. Or trying to.
Dear Friends, Family and other Locals,
I'm writing today to explain some of the changes taking place on Louisville Mojo.
As you may or may not know, Louisville Mojo came online seven years ago as a community web site. It was launched as a "portfolio piece" to demonstrate what we were capable of as a web programming shop and the hope at the time was that it would help us build that business. In a classic tail that wags the dog scenario, Louisville Mojo took on a life of its own, grew far too fast and large to manage as a side-project and was re-tooled to become a business unto itself. The common element over all these years is that Louisville Mojo was primarily advertising supported with a small but critical amount of the costs being carried by the Inner Circle / supporting members. (You guys truly made it possible when advertising alone wouldn't carry all the water, and for that, we thank you!)
We've tried all sorts of crazy ideas and experiments over the years, so features have come and gone while others have changed and evolved. Most recently we tried an eight month experiment in online news which was wildly successful in regards to growth (page views and visitors). Sadly though, page views and traffic have never been a problem for Louisville Mojo; it started as one of the most popular web sites in the state and remains so today, serving over 20 million page views to over 150K visitors each month. If traffic were dollars we'd have it made but advertising has been significantly softened since the market crash in the third quarter of 2008. The ongoing recession and tough competition for ad dollars, both locally and from the big boys (Google, Facebook, etc.) have given the site's ad-based revenue model a one-two punch.
In order to survive and continue to thrive we have to adapt to the changing environment, and if Louisville Mojo is to sustain itself it will have to be primarily member supported. As part of this, we're re-focusing on our core strengths... dating, entertainment and events. As part of this change we've removed some features and we're adding others. If you get value out of Mojo we're asking you to vote with your dollars and support the site! We know that literally tens of thousands of friendships have been formed on Mojo over the years and that we're responsible for hundreds of happy marriages. We hope to continue to create these genuine connections.
The largest difference is that private messaging and instant messaging will be for paid members only. We're adding a paid member account (the new ~AWESOME ACCOUNT~) to all existing profiles today, but moving forward, new accounts will have to be a supporting member in order to privately message others. In addition to supporting the ongoing costs of the site this will have the added benefit that we're losing the trouble makers once and for all. I think the modest membership costs will also guarantee that we have a more interested and responsible member base. This will be a breath of fresh air for many of us who have put up with occasional harassing behavior in the past.
While I know that change is hard, and a paid site is not where we had intended to go, I hope you'll remain with us as you always have through the years.
If you'd like to see more details on some of the recent changes, and/or join the discussion, click over to the forum topic.
- Chuck
PS. Should you or your company need a powerful, feature-rich new web site, please let us know. We've recently done some really gorgeous work for the Boy Scouts of America (LHCBSA.org) and Heine Brothers Coffee (HeineBrosCoffee.com) as well as a number of sites for Greater Louisville, Inc.


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Paint it Black
by Cyndie Lack (BFA, MAC)
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On the subject of painting Sir Winston Churchill once said: "At one side of the palette there is white, at the other black, and neither is ever used neat" (https://winstonchurchill.org/the-life-of-churchill/life/artist/painting-as-a-pastime/).
Painters have long been told to avoid straight-from-the-tube black or to use it most sparingly. While this conventional advice remains sound for many practitioners, artists of this century continue to challenge, reject and even massacre things conventional. Gone too is the image of the artist working in stoic isolation (though in reality many still do, like it or not). Large scale public art projects have made art into a team sport by necessity. Scientists and others from what were once regarded as distinctly different areas of endeavour are now routine players on team art.
Years ago I was intrigued to learn of the once "blackest black," an artificial mineral pigment called spinel black named after the natural mineral spinel. It was said to be the pigment used to coat stealth bombers. As a paintings conservator I've yet to require an ultra deep black for colour matching, but out of curiosity I purchased a small quantity from my favourite London artists' colourmen, L. Cornelissen & Son.
Fast forward to 2019, the year that MIT engineers developed a blacker black with only 0.005% reflectance of incident visible radiation, or to put it another way, a material that absorbed 99.995% of visible radiation aka "light" (http://news.mit.edu/2019/blackest-black-material-cnt-0913).
From a first glance at the press release, one might conclude that this material represented an entirely new technology, but carbon nanotubes were first identified in the early 1990s. Subsequent innovations have been in the particular way the superfine nanotube particles are created, and hence the extent to which light is absorbed. Black is not a colour per se but a substance that absorbs light, however black pigments available to artists reflect a small percentage of light. Carbon nanotubes reduce this percentage to minuscule levels.
An earlier innovation, "Vantablack" (vertically aligned nanotube array) with its 0.035% reflectance was developed in 2014 by Surrey NanoSystems, UK. Anish Kapoor outraged the art world by striking a deal for his exclusive use of Vantablack. Social media was littered with objections, some hostile, and a seemingly irresistible urge to take a pop at Kapoor persists. A 2016 fake news piece saw Kapoor's monumental 2006 sculpture Cloud Gate with its famously reflective surface disappear in a shroud of Vantablack.
But then along came Vantablack Vbx2, also produced by Surrey NanoSystems and so went Kapoor's short-lived monopoly of the blackest black. Vbx2 was utilized by architect Asif Khan for his 2018 winter Olympics pavilion in Pyeongchang, South Korea.
Vantablack Vbx2 is used in the automotive industry. Incidentally, the volume of pigment usage by the automotive industry is of critical importance to the art world by maintaining market demand for quality, highly lightfast pigments. As with many manufactured goods, Chinese production offers reduced costs but with a possible tradeoff in quality and dubious disclosure of composition. Artist material manufacturers are at the mercy of market forces in their access to raw materials such as pigments, which may be suddenly discontinued. Furthermore, a supply change means months of extensive testing to ensure the newly supplied material meets quality standards for art materials. This is well described by Golden Paints CEO Mark Golden in his article "Manufacturing Artist Paints: Keeping Pace with Change" (GCI Newsletter: Conserving Modern Paints, Fall 2016).
In yet another intersection of art and science, and a rebuke to Kapoor, MIT's ultra black was utilized by MIT artist in residence Diemut Strebe. Strebe collaborated with Brian L. Wardle, Professor of Aeronautics and Astronautics and Director of necstlab and Nano- Engineered Composite Aerospace Structures (NECST) Consortium, along with team members Luiz Acauan and Estelle Cohen. The resulting installation titled The Redemption of Vanity is a 6.78 carat yellow diamond coated with the new black and presented at the New York Stock Exchange September 13 – November 25, 2019. In this context, "presented" is not quite the right word since the whole point was the visual disappearance of the brilliant cut diamond. The symbolic-charged venue of the NYSE venue added a wealth (pun-intended) of meaningful layers of interpretation.
To be clear, carbon nanotube blacks were never destined for the shelves of artist supply stores. Their application requires highly specialized technology, so how should we interpret Kapoor's deal? I doubt that these ever blacker blacks are discernible to the human eye anyway. They are designed for aerospace and military applications, and would not work as robust coatings for outdoor sculptures. Kapoor's preoccupation with reflections and voids are long-standing, and while I have not personally seen any his black-coated sculptures, I would guess earlier black coatings adequately conveyed his intention. The bad PR for Kapoor opened another gateway for discussions about art and science and more unusually, artists' rights of access to materials.
P.S. While many fascating books about colour and pigments reside on my bookshelves, I recommend a 2016 publication The Secret Lives of Colour by Kassia St. Clair, which was a gift from a dear friend Andrea Bowes, a conservator for the Edmonton Arts Council (https://www.edmontonarts.ca).


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Just For Fun
Watain Conjures Demon at Live Show. Eats Half of Audience
While performing a special single date show in Stockholm, members of the black metal band Watain managed to actually conjure a hellspawn which proceeded to eat half of the members of the audience before departing in a puff of smoke while laughing hysterically. The demon is allegedly still at large and may be responsible for eating people across Sweden.
However, none of the band members were hurt which makes this story barely qualify as news. Nobody ever cares when a member of the audience gets hurt or if the lighting guy gets killed in a bus crash. Any other details aren't important enough to be written.
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the demon was spotted on a camera phone from one of the surviving victims.
the alleged " demon" was a female, 5'3, 140lbs, wearing a wifebeater tshirt, mens boxer shorts, long brown hair covering her face, a few of the witnesses that survived this self labled bloodbath said the demon went by the name of "katie".
We at MUTW are still trying to verify this story, and or hoax.
We sent a call to scottland yard for a response, but they had no comment.
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High Broadband Penetration to Drive the World Content Delivery Network Market
The deployment of "rich-media" files across verticals such as entertainment, enterprise, and media is on the upswing. This, along with increased broadband penetration, will fuel growth in the world content delivery network (CDN) market.
New analysis from Frost & Sullivan (financialservices.frost.com), Global Content Delivery Networks Market – Investment Analysis, reveals that this market earned revenues of $725.0 million in 2007 and estimates this to reach $2.6 billion mark by 2012.
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"The cumulative effect of factors such as "rich-media" files across verticals, coupled with enhanced broadband penetration, are reflected in strong market expansion, with revenues for the world CDN market projected to grow at a CAGR of 31.1 percent, during the period 2007 to 2012," notes Frost & Sullivan Financial Analyst Swarna Pasupathi. "Venture capital (VC) investors are eyeing myriad opportunities, including new ways to make their return on investments, which includes innovative and patented CDN participants that are vital for next generation web content delivery."
The world CDN market consists of the video and the non-video segments; the former growing at a much faster CAGR of 32.6 percent compared to the non-video segment's anticipated growth of 29.2 percent, during the period 2007 to 2012.
However, a primary concern for the market is the high popularity of peer-to-peer (P2P) technologies, with torrents and self-hosted content delivery being a threat to the growth of the world CDN market.
"Trends indicate an increase in demand for higher quality content distribution and this is expected to have a restraining impact on traditional CDN participants who are being over taken by P2P participants," adds Pasupathi. "Though the success of P2P is speculative, evolving P2P technology will have an impact on the growing CDN market."
The future of the world CDN market will compel market participants to develop a diversified product portfolio that supports efficient content delivery. Acquisition or partnership of traditional CDN participants with innovative P2P-technology will occur over the long term to enhance current CDN offerings and overcome competition from P2P participants.
"CDN participants operating predominantly in the video CDN segment and focusing on the BRIC and APAC regions will attract VC investors during the period 2007 to 2012," concludes Pasupathi. "The increased deployment of 'rich-media' content across entertainment, media, and enterprise verticals is the key contributing factor to the overall growth of the video CDN market."
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Movie Review
by Crissa-Jean Chappell
If Storytelling is a lesson in self-criticism, it functions more like a navel-gazing excuse than an apology. Like Happiness, it's a monomaniacal tirade crawling with hapless people whom we can hold ourselves above and laugh at with disdain. Director Todd Solondz, the master manipulator, turns around and creates miserable situations to make these wretched characters seem sympathetic while admonishing us for sneering at them.
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BBC: Protests in Georgia over government threat to TV station
Thousands of people have staged a rally in Georgia to protest against the government's alleged attempts to close the country's most popular TV station. Protesters gathered outside the offices of Rustavi 2, which has been locked in a dispute with authorities. They accuse the government of attempting to stifle media freedom.
Georgian Prime Minister Irakli Gharibashvili warned that he would respond sternly to any potential breaches of the law at the rally.
Some demonstrators held up placards reading "Hands off Rustavi 2 TV" and "Rustavi 2 belongs to the people".
Rustavi 2 has been locked in an ongoing ownership tussle since August, sparking fears that the ruling Georgian Dream coalition could compromise the independence of the channel by interfering.
Over the summer, a court froze the broadcaster's assets after a businessman close to the coalition filed a lawsuit to claim control.
Government critics and the channel's owners say the planned closure of the station is part of a campaign to silence the press ahead of next year's parliamentary elections.
"The government has decided to hand Rustavi 2 ownership over to a man under its control and that will amount to a closure of the country's most influential TV channel," Rustavi 2's deputy director, Zaal Udumashvili, told AFP.
"That will put an end to media pluralism in Georgia and threaten the very existence of Georgian democracy," he added.
On Wednesday, the channel's director Nika Gvaramia said a government middleman had threatened to release secretly-recorded videos showing what he described as his "private life" in an attempt to force him to resign.
The office of Georgia's prosecutor general has launched a probe into his claims.
Founded in 1994, Rustavi 2 TV is Georgia's biggest and most popular television station.


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Invisalign(TM) is a modern technique to straighten teeth without the hassle of traditional metal wires. Invisalign(TM) is a clear, removable device that you wear over your teeth for about 20 hours a day. This device ultimately makes its more convenient for you to eat, brush and floss. It is also comfortable and easy to wear. Invisalign(TM) is visually more appealing and will give you the confidence to straighten your teeth without the metal look.
The process of getting Invisalign(TM) is easy and convenient. It first begins with a consultation with your dentist. Once he or she determines if you are a candidate for Invisalign(TM), a model of your teeth will be created on the computer to ensure a step-by-step process to getting your teeth straight. This allows you to see a visual representation of what your teeth can look like upon completion of treatment. A set of aligners is created every two weeks. Each aligner is made so that your teeth are slightly straighter than the previous trays. The amount of time and number of aligners worn differs depending on how straight you want your teeth.
Choosing Invisalign(TM) rids of most problems that traditional braces may cause. It reduces pain, discomfort and mouth sores that you may endure from the metal brackets and wires. It also decreases your chances of getting tooth decay and plaque buildup from inadequate brushing and flossing.


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Here, I prepared a list of tips you can do/follow to optimise your storage space.
It is better to spend a little more on packing materials like boxes or pods when organising your stuff to be stored. Piling boxes upwards is better than just putting or throwing everything in. You can also use your clear bins in storing your things as they allow you to keep track and see your items easier and faster without having to dig through them.
Spend a little more time and effort in sorting your things out. This way, you will be able to see and separate those you will need in the future and those that you won't. Donate or sell these unnecessary things --- don't let them take space.
Furniture like chairs, tables or cabinets takes up so much space, so it's better to disassemble them before storing. Put them in a box and voila --- you save a lot of space, making room for other stuff you wish to store away.
For easy tracking, keep an inventory or list of things you store and where you place them. It doesn't have to be complicated. Just list down and put the location. Number or label the boxes where you put your stuff for your reference. Simple, isn't it? This will help you track your things when you need them. You don't have to dig in every box. You can also create a simple map to summarise the location of your stuff in the storage unit. For example, a quadrant map --- divide your stuff into four different categories. Place each category in each quadrant (section).
Keep the stuff you visit/frequently access towards the front so you won't have to go through the storage unit to find something, turning it upside-down. And make sure to leave a space inside the unit where you can sit while browsing through your boxes or bins and where you can access your things placed on both sides and at the back.
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Persons of all ages use our roads every day. Young road users include infants in car seats, and young children who walk or cycle to school, or ride as passengers in a motor vehicle. Adults of all ages equally rely on roads and transit to get to school and to work. Moreover, regardless of age, everyone uses our roads for health and leisure activities and to remain connected with family and friends.
The risks we face on the road change over time and with age. Young, school-aged children are at higher risk as pedestrians because they lack the developmental abilities to accurately judge the distance and speed of oncoming vehicles and decide whether they have time to cross the street. Young drivers are over-represented in road crashes due to their young age and inexperience driving. They are less able to detect hazards on the road and more prone to risk-taking behaviour. Conversely, aging drivers who, in addition to normal age-related declines in abilities such as slower reaction times and limited mobility, may also be affected by other conditions such as visual impairment, heart disease, stroke, and dementia and impairment due to medications related to those conditions. However, the ability of older persons to retain their mobility is essential to their health.
Commercial vehicles drivers face a different set of risks because of how much time they spend behind the wheel on the road in a much larger vehicle. While large trucks are less often involved in road crashes, despite driving much longer distances than drivers of passenger vehicles, the consequences of large truck crashes are substantial due to their large size and mass. In sharp contrast, pedestrians, cyclists, motorcyclists and drivers of off-road vehicles are much more vulnerable to injury since they lack the protective exterior of a motor vehicle.
TIRF has conducted a wide range of studies looking at the many different types of road users described above. In addition, impaired drivers and young drivers have been a special focus as they account for a substantial proportion of fatalities and injuries on our roads.