Brands have a hard enough time making themselves heard, let alone building and maintaining a loyal following. The challenge is real.
What if, however, you operate in an industry so riddled with a reputation of shameless profiteering and overly-corporate and dry communication styles? Take for example, insurance, and health service providers. How could companies in these industries make themselves heard in a way that not only inspires, but also maintains their most loyal customers?
Patients or visitors of a hospital as well as family members seeking care for their loved ones do not particularly look forward to it. These are emotional experiences that rarely include positive anticipation within the user experience.
While purchasing dental, car or home insurance — or even adjusting a pension scheme may not be as emotional as a hospital visit, it is similar in the sense that it's done out of necessity.
Providers in these industries struggle with trust issues leading clients to be latently skeptical of their offer.
The service providers in these industries are dealing in fundamentally unpleasant or even frightening situations such as car accidents, illness, theft or old-age poverty.
Complex issues are combined with historically cumbersome and bureaucratic processes, resulting in a toxic mixture of insecurity and frustration for the user.
While all this may sound quite devastating at first glance, in essence the solution is very simple.
Stop trying to make yourselves look good. Instead, focus on solving your customers' problems.
We already know that brands are not defined by their logos, but by the products or services they offer. However, people often forget to bring that knowledge into action. To be successful, brands need to stop investing their energy in logo refinements and campaign slogans and instead start to work on making sure that every and any encounter with their products and services is worthwhile for their users.
Imagine you are a company offering car insurance. Why not consider putting some (actually, a lot of) thought into making the accident experience as seamless as possible? For the customer, being in an accident is a stressful crisis situation. Yet, for your company it is an enormous opportunity to leave a lasting positive impression in their minds. This is the moment where a customer may or may not recognize that he or she should switch to the competition. If your company is able to do things right, a personal relationship begins through which you can transform yourself from a necessary commodity into a brand that they are happy to recommend to friends, family and colleagues.
We have faced similar challenges alongside our clients — let's take a look at Helios, Europe's largest private clinic operator, for example.
When we worked on the relaunch of their brand and websites, one of the fundamental steps we helped Helios to take in their transformation, was to change their communication strategy. We helped them change it from an inward-looking and even self-congratulatory perspective, to one that focused on actually helping their patients and fulfilling specific, albeit immediate needs.
All content, the website, apps, and even the service in the hospitals were refocused towards usefulness and a great user experience. In the course of this process, we developed a comprehensive design system with principles, guidelines and building blocks for various fields of application. This allowed for the comprehensive change to be implemented quickly and consistently in all areas of the company. And in the end, this systematic, user-oriented approach with a human touch was a great success. Not only could hundreds of websites be launched within just one year thanks to the design system but also, the redesigned sites were received far more positively than before. So much so, that page impressions rose by 80% during the first eight months after Helios relaunched.
To quickly summarize: Even in difficult environments where your brand deals with the necessary evils of the world, positive brand relationships can be established and maintained with a holistic approach to digital brand management.


The best Blackberry Jam Muffins are made with small batch homemade quick jam folded into a fluffy batter. But, fear not, you can make yours with whatever good quality jam you have on hand.
I sometimes think that I was born in the wrong century, or perhaps later than I should have been in this one. I love to make jams, preserves and chutneys. Maybe it's because I don't live in the early 1900s and have to do it. Like homework, it's always more fun to do if it's not your own assignment, amirite? I can hardly imagine either of my grandmothers putting up just one jar of jam or chowchow at a time. They are probably tsk-ing at me right now.
Dubai and the UAE in general have much more locally grown fresh produce available since I arrived six years ago, but except for dates, fruit is still flown in so it's expensive. So much so that I cannot pass up produce when it is on sale, especially berries and summer fruit like peaches and nectarines.
This week it was blackberries. I cooked them down into a quick jam – no pectin, just lemon juice and sugar – then because it is Muffin Monday, I used one-third cup to make these lovely muffins. So good! And, the best part is that once the muffins are gone, we will still enjoy blackberries for weeks to come. If you'd like to make my quick blackberry jam, find that recipe here.
Combine my favorite easy quick bread breakfast muffin recipe with your favorite jam (or my quick blackberry jam) to make these delicious muffins for breakfast or snack time. I topped each with an extra blackberry before baking. As you can see from the photos, they sank, making a little tart surprise in the middle of each. Skip that step if you'd like.
Preheat oven to 350°F or 180°C. Generously grease cups and top of 12-cup muffin pan or line it with paper muffin cups.
*Put your lemon juice in a measuring vessel and then add milk up to the 1 cup or 240ml mark. Set aside.
Whisk your flour, sugar, baking powder, baking soda and salt together in a large bowl.
In another bowl, whisk together your soured milk, oil and eggs.
All at once, add the wet ingredients to the dry. Gently fold just until dry ingredients are moistened. There may be little bits of flour showing and that's just fine.
Spoon the blackberry jam on to the batter, then fold it in. You want ribbons of jam, not a homogenous batter.
Divide your batter relatively evenly between the 12 muffin cups. Top each with a whole blackberry, if desired. As I mentioned above, they sunk. I was hoping for a decoration on top but instead got a little surprise inside. All good either way.
Bake the muffins for 20-25 minutes in your preheated oven, or until they are golden.
Remove the pan from the oven and let cool 10-15 minutes before removing muffins from the pan.
Check out all of the wonderful muffins my Muffin Monday group has for you today!
Quick blackberry jam is so easy that you can have homemade jam in less than 25 minutes. Seriously. That doesn't count cooling time but those extra minutes will teach you patience, young grasshopper. Good things do come to those wait!
If you've ever let jam making scare you, this is the recipe you'll want to try. First, it only makes one jar, so no huge commitment. Second, it only has three ingredients. And finally, but probably most importantly, it's quick, easy and delicious. And P.S. It's also great in muffins. Get the muffin recipe here.
As I mention in my blackberry jam muffin post, I cannot resist berries on sale. This quick blackberry jam extends their shelf life in a most wonderful, easy way.
In your kitchen sink, sterilize one 2-cup or 480ml jar by putting a teaspoon in it and then filling it with just boiled water. Fill its lid as well. Leave to cool while you get on with the jam. I pour the boiling water over my ladle and jar funnel too, just to make sure it's all sterilized. Once it's cooled enough to handle, pour the water out of the jar and lid and leave to dry.
Put the clean blackberries in a heavy bottomed pot along with the lemon zest. Mash them with a potato masher until completely pulverized, occasionally using a sharp knife to cut them off of the masher grid.
Add the sugar and lemon juice. Stir well.
Put the pot on the stove over a high heat, stirring frequently, until it comes to a rolling boil. Boil for five minutes, skimming off and discarding any scum that appears with a spoon. Do not walk away from the jam at any time.
Reduce the heat to medium high and cook at a slow boil for an additional 12-14 minutes or until the jam reduces by about one-third in volume, continuing to skim scum if it keeps coming out.
You really don't need a thermometer for this quick jam but I like to watch the temperature rise. Supposedly for jam to set, it has to reach 220°F or 104°C. This quick jam did not but it set just fine.
Remove the pot from the stove and add the butter. Stir well till the butter has melted completely.
Using a clean ladle and funnel, transfer the quick jam to your jar. Screw the lid on tightly and turn the jar upside down. Leave to cool completely. Once cool, turn the jar upright and store in the refrigerator.
Mocha Stout brownies are rich and chocolaty with a subtle deep flavor from the stout. I used Bateman's Mocha Stout which is available in Dubai, but you can substitute your own favorite local brew.
Here in Dubai, as I've mentioned before, one must have a liquor license in order to purchase alcohol, including beer and wine. Because my husband travels a lot, always picking up bottles at duty free on the way home, we don't go to the actual liquor stores that often. When we do go, I love browsing through the selection looking for odd bottles to use in cooking or baking. (Or cocktails!) This bottle of Mocha Stout was one such bottle. When I purchased it, I had no plans so it has been in the beer fridge for a while.
This month our Creative Cookie Exchange leader, Laura from The Spiced Life, put forward Beer Cookies as our theme, saying maybe it's "too out there." A little weird, yes, but just search "beer cookies" and you get: About 320,000,000 results. I was game for the challenge. My daughter reminded me of that mocha stout and I got busy!
Curious about the mocha stout? Here are the beer notes from the Bateman website.
Mocha (6% ABV) - Winner of the Sainsbury's Great British Beer Hunt, our Mocha is a coffee and chocolate stout sensation. It's brewed with genuine Arabica coffee, fine Belgian chocolate and locally grown, roasted barley malt. Rich, enticing and well rounded, the coffee and cocoa notes are certain to give your nose and taste buds a welcome wake-up call.
Note: Just to be clear, I bought the mocha stout myself. This is not a sponsored post. Details included just for informational purposes.
When it comes to brownies, there's chewy vs cakey. I prefer chewy. My first batch of these turned out a bit dry aka cakey so I doubled down and added another egg yolk and less flour. Ahh, much better! If you like yours cakey, omit the egg yolk and add an additional 1/4 cup or 31g more flour.
I bought mine at Waitrose here in Dubai. UK readers, here's the link. In the US, Walmart has something similar. I tried to find them on the actual Bayside Candy website without any luck. You could probably also use actual chocolate covered coffee beans sold all over the place.
Preheat oven to 325°F or 163°C. Line your 9x13 in or 22.5x33cm pan with baking parchment. I put a little butter on the pan under the parchment which keeps it from slipping around.
Measure your sugars, cocoa powder, baking soda, baking powder and salt into a large mixing bowl. Whisk to combine.
Add in the melted butter and whisk again to combine.
In another smaller bowl, whisk your whole egg and yolk. Add the egg and stout to the large mixing bowl and stir until well combined.
Fold in the flour, stirring until just combined.
Spoon the batter into your prepared baking pan and smooth the top out with a clean knife. Sprinkle on the chocolate coffee beans, if using.
Bake in the preheated oven for 25-27 minutes or until the top is slightly firm to the touch. Allow to cool completely. Cut into 24 even squares.
It's October, a month well-known for a rise in beer consumption! At Creative Cookie Exchange we couldn't resist doing our part to help. Check out the other beery cookies and bars we have for you today!
Spicy shrimp stuffed squid salad says it all. Shrimp, chili peppers, garlic and cheese are stuffed into clean squid and baked! Once sliced, these beauties make a tasty colorful addition to a fresh tomato salad. This salad looks fancy, if you have special guests that need impressing, but it's really quite easy to make.
Way back circa 2005, we had a lovely gentleman builder named Dave Price supervising renovation work on our house in the Channel Islands. As I spent more time with Dave, I found out that master construction was not his only skill; he also did a lot of the cooking in his family. We'd discuss recipes and what memorable dish we'd made for dinner recently over many cups of strong tea.
When Dave told me about one of his specialties, stuffed squid, I couldn't wait to write it down and try it. Squid are so perfectly stuff-able! Why hadn't I thought of that?
This month I am the host of Fish Friday Foodies and our theme is seafood stuffing. When I created the event, I was thinking along the lines of seafood that would be stuffed into something else, like a crepe, taco or baked potato. But as I shuffled through my old files, I knew I had to share Dave's recipe. I can't recall if he said what he served the stuffed squid with but I decided to add it into a fresh tomato salad.
Dave's original instructions called for one 6-inch squid per person. Mine were much smaller so I bought eight, but the size really doesn't matter that much since we are going to slice them anyway. Use what you can find. This serves 2-3 people as a main or 4-5 as a starter or side dish.
Clean each squid, first removing the head, tentacles and cartilage (cuttlebone) from the tube. Use a sharp knife to cut the head away from the tentacles and discard it. Remove the beak from the tentacles and discard. Rub the outer colored film off of the tube with a dry paper towel. It should rub off quite easily.
Run the tubes under cool water and make sure they are clean inside. Set aside to drain. If you need visuals of the cleaning process, check out this thorough post on The Spruce Eats.
Chop the tentacles and shrimp into small bits then mix them with the chili peppers, garlic, salt and a few good grinds of black pepper.
Add in the cheese and stir well. Mix in the sour cream.
Stuff this mixture into your cleaned squid tubes.
Sew up the opening with poultry string and tie a knot to keep it from coming open. I use a semi circular needle, which makes it easy to catch both sides of the squid as you stitch.
Put the shrimp stuffed squid in a baking pan and drizzle them with the olive oil.
Bake them in your preheated oven for about 20 minutes. They will release a lot of beautifully flavored liquid. Remove the squid to a cutting board and leave to cool. Save any bits of shrimp that managed to escape.
Strain the juice from the cooking pan and put it in a small jar or jug. Once whisked, this makes a gorgeous dressing for the salad. Taste it and add a pinch more salt if necessary.
Once the squid are cool enough to handle, use a sharp knife to cut them into circles.
Arrange these on your sliced tomatoes, along with the cilantro and any salvaged shrimp bits.
Whisk the dressing again and drizzle it over the tomatoes and squid.
Check out the other seafood stuffing recipes my Fish Friday Foodie friends are sharing today!
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Layer a tangy lemon batter with a zippy pink raspberry batter and give them a swirl to create this lemon raspberry marble Bundt cake. The crumb is light but buttery. The lemon raspberry glaze adds a delightfully tart sweetness, or just sprinkle with a little powdered sugar to serve.
This month's Bundt Baker theme is marble cakes which, in case you are not familiar, means two (or even three) batters, all swirled together in one cake pan. Ideally the cut cake shows off the different colors when baked and cut. The trick, I think, is not to swirl too vigorously and to make sure your batters are contrasting colors.
The most popular recipes when one searches for marble cake are vanilla and chocolate, which surely provide the most definitive contrast but I wanted to go a different direction. For the last week or so, my mind has been mulling the problem in the background, even as I get other things done. I'm special that way.
The fresh raspberries available at my nearby supermarket clinched the deal. Lemon and raspberry it would be.
The basic yellow cake batter recipe comes from my old favorite standby, Good Housekeeping Illustrated Cookbook, 1980 edition. As both of my flavor additions are acidic, I also added baking soda, to help lighten the cake crumb.
Preheat oven to 350°F or 180°C. Grease a 10-cup Bundt pan with butter and then coat it with flour.
Once mixed, set aside two tablespoons to use later for the glaze.
In large bowl, with your mixer on low speed, beat the sugar and butter just until blended. Increase the speed to high and beat 3 minutes or until creamy, occasionally scraping bowl with rubber spatula. Reduce speed to low again and the add eggs, one at a time, beating well after each addition.
Beat in flour mixture alternately with milk mixture, beginning and ending with flour mixture just until blended, scraping bowl occasionally.
To one bowl of batter, add your raspberry mixture and fold it in till it's completely combined.
Since a marbled look is our goal, I also added about a 1/4 teaspoon of Wilton No Taste Red coloring gel. Without it, the batter was a soft purple-y grey. No doubt it would be tasty but not necessarily attractive.
I used a clean toothpick to scoop the gel out of the little bottle because it's so sticky, then I put the gel-coated end of the toothpick into the little bowl with the raspberry mixture that will flavor the glaze.
Add the fresh lemon juice and lemon zest to the second bowl of batter and fold them in till completely combined.
Using two tablespoons, alternate dropping spoonfuls of batter into your prepared Bundt pan.
Keep layering the different batters, raspberry on top of lemon, on top of raspberry, etc. until they are both finished.
Using a wooden skewer or chopstick, gently swirl the batter from the middle to the outside and back again, around the Bundt pan.
The batter is light and fluffy so it doesn't take long to bake. About 35-40 minutes should do it or when the sides start to pull away from the pan and a wooden skewer comes out of the center clean. Set the Bundt pan on a wire rack to cool for about 20 minutes. Use the tip of your wooden skewer to loosen the edges of the cake from the pan then invert it onto the wire rack to cool completely before glazing.
For the glaze, mix the powdered sugar with the reserved raspberry mixture and add the lemon juice a teaspoon at a time until you reach your desired consistency.
I stopped at 3 teaspoons but really should have added more. As you can see, my glaze was very thick. But I've got to tell you, the raspberry flavor shone through! I was very, very pleased with that.
A soft yeast dough filled with a blend of three salty cheeses, cilantro and nigella seeds, fatayer jebneh or Arabic cheese pies are baked till golden on the outside. The melted cheese on the inside is the perfect complement to the tender crust.
Fatayer jebneh are boat-shaped cheese "pies" that are a popular traditional snack in many Arabic speaking countries. They are available not only in bakeries, but even supermarket deli counters will offer these convenient ready-to-go savory treats.
When we first moved to Cairo back in 2012, I started searching online for a book about the city and its food traditions. I came across Apricots on the Nile* by Colette Rossant, originally published as Memories of a Lost Egypt. Ms. Rossant weaves a fascinating tale of her childhood along with sharing many recipes for favorite dishes.
If you are interested in Egyptian cuisine, you might want to check out two other specialties I've made from Apricots on the Nile: Lahma Mashshiya or Beef Rolls with Onion Gravy and Sambusaks, another cheese-filled butter pastry but made without a yeast dough.
Occasionally Ms. Rossant would mention a dish for which the recipe was not included, so I started searching online for food blogs that might fill the gap. Despite living in Abu Dhabi years before, I found that I was woefully ignorant about much of Middle Eastern cuisine. One of my very favorites was called Chef in Disguise, written by a talented cook and photographer named Sawsan. As she says in her About Me, Sawsan is an orthodontist by day, a food blogger at night. A Palestinian who was raised in Jordan, she was passionate about sharing her traditional recipes – in English, thank goodness! – with the world.
This recipe is adapted from Chef in Disguise. If you cannot find the akkawi or kashkaval cheeses, substitute another salty cheese like feta.
Note on flour: Here's the thing about flour and making bread dough. Sometimes, even if you measure your flour by weight, it might need more water when the dough starts coming together. The first time I made this recipe, we were living in Egypt and the dough came out beautifully with exactly half a cup of warm water. I don't know if the flour I can buy here in Dubai is drier – or maybe the air is drier? – but I had to add two tablespoons of water as the dough came together so it would hang together so I could knead it. Use your best judgement.
Add the yeast and sugar to a bowl or large measuring vessel then stir in the warm water. Set it aside until you need it again. You are looking for it to foam up, proving that the yeast is still active. If it doesn't bubble up, buy new yeast and start again.
In a large bowl, whisk together the flour and salt till combined. This also helps aerate the flour and takes the place of sifting.
Drizzle in the oil and use a pastry cutter or your clean fingers to mix it in, creating a crumbly texture.
Add the yeast mixture and the yogurt to the flour and mix thoroughly.
I used my stand mixer at this point. You can certainly do it by hand, it's just gonna give your arms a workout.
After kneading, roll the dough into a ball and drizzle a little bit of oil into the mixing bowl. Put the dough back in and turn it so it's well oiled.
Cover the bowl with a damp towel and put it in a warm place for about an hour or until the dough has doubled in size.
Traditional fatayer jebneh are a bit bigger than the ones I made, each starting with an egg-sized piece of dough. You can get about 10 of that size with this recipe. I find those a bit large, so I divide the dough into 16 pieces.
Either way, the cheese filling is enough since the smaller pies hold less cheese. Divide your dough into either 10 or 16 small balls.
Cover the balls with a clean damp towel and leave them to rest for 10 minutes.
In a mixing bowl, combine the cheeses, chopped cilantro and nigella seeds.
One at a time, roll each dough ball out into an elongated oval.
Fill the middle with the correct portion of cheese. For my 16 smaller pies, two tablespoons or (if you are a scale user) about 19g each worked perfectly.
Brush the ends of the oval with a little water.
Starting on the right side of the elongated oval, fold the far side toward you. Close that end by folding the near side back.
On the left side, start by folding the near side back, then close that side by folding the far side forward. In other words, the two ends should be mirror images of each other.
Use your fingers to press the sides of the gap together.
Place the fatayer jebneh on a baking pan, leaving room for them to expand a bit while they bake. When the first pan is full, set it aside for about 15 minutes and preheat your oven to 400°F or 200°C. Meanwhile, roll, fill and form the rest of the pies.
When the oven is hot, brush the fatayer jebneh with a little milk and pop them in the oven. I baked mine in two batches because I was still forming the second group when the oven was hot enough.
Bake for about 14-16 minutes or until the dough is golden and the cheese is melted and bubbling.
Remove from the oven and allow to cool a bit before eating. Melted cheese will seriously burn your mouth if you bite in too soon!
Serve warm. If not eaten right away, these can be kept in the refrigerator in an airtight container. Give them 10 seconds on high in the microwave before serving.
This month my Bread Bakers group are celebrating October with Middle Eastern breads. Many thanks to our host, Karen from Karen's Kitchen Stories. Check out all the great recipes!
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Investment professionals and the firms in which they are employed (e.g., advisory firms, financial institutions and brokerage firms) owe their customers a duty of care in maintaining and monitoring their accounts. That is, the investment professional has a duty to exercise the degree of care that a reasonably prudent person would exercise in the financial services industry. When an investment professional's conduct falls below this standard of care, a customer may have a claim against the investment professional for negligence.
Although each state has its own standard of negligence, there are four common elements to a negligence claim: 1) the existence of a duty; 2) the duty was breached; 3) the breach caused injury to the customer; and 4) the customer was harmed or injured as a result of that breach. State of mind is not an element of the claim – the conduct need not be the result of a willful or intentional act. The conduct need only arise from an act, omission or failure to act that deviates from the industry standards of care. Therefore, even if the investment professional did not intend the consequence of his/her conduct, so long as a "reasonable person" in his/her position would have anticipated those consequences and taken "reasonable" precautions to guard against them, the investment professional is negligent.
Negligence claims are typically asserted in conjunction with other causes of action in a securities arbitration. Examples of companion claims include the failure to: make suitable recommendations consistent with client investment profile; recommend risk management strategies (such as diversification) for concentrated stock positions; conduct reasonable due diligence; avoid taxable events in the rollover of tax qualified accounts; and monitor investor accounts for changes in customer circumstances and market conditions.
Broker-dealers, financial institutions and investment advisory firms can also be the subject of a negligence claim for the failure to supervise and adequately monitor the activities in a customer's account. For instance, when a firm fails to implement adequate compliance or supervisory policies, procedures and systems, or fails to train its investment professionals of information that they reasonably should have known, the firm may be found liable for negligence if their registered representatives, investment advisors and brokers are found to have violated the securities laws, the rules and regulations of self-regulatory organizations, such as the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority ("FINRA"), and/or the firm's policies and procedures.
Freiberger Haber LLP can help you determine whether an investment loss is the result of negligence. Customers who suffer losses as a result of negligence may be able to recover their losses in a FINRA arbitration. If you believe your investment professional has acted negligently, or failed to manage your account with the degree of care a member in the securities profession would exercise, contact Freiberger Haber LLP to discuss your rights.


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THE UK is "not in control" over how much longer it will have to remain in the EU, Chancellor Philip Hammond has revealed.
Speaking to Sky News this morning, he was unable to tell host Adam Boulton how far beyond the deadline of March 29th the UK would be forced to stay in the European bloc. He explained: "The Prime Minister has signalled that we would look for a short extension. But as she said in her comments from the dispatch box last night, this is not in our control.
"And the EU is signalling that only if we have a deal is it willing to grant a short technical extension to get the legislation through.
"If we don't have a deal and we're still discussing among ourselves what is the right way to go forward then it's quite possible that the EU may insist on a significantly longer period.
He added: "I am very happy with the Prime Minister's deal. I would be delighted if a consensus emerges behind the Prime Minister's deal over the next day or two.
"But I think we also have to explore other options for Parliament to express a view about how we resolve this impasse."
Mr Hammond said there was "confusion" around Wednesday night's votes, when several ministers failed to vote with the Government.
But he told Sky: "I don't expect there to be mass sackings as a result of last night."
The Chancellor urged hard Brexiteers to consider backing Theresa May's deal when it returns to the Commons.
"I understand why they may not find the Prime Minister's deal perfectly in line with their view of the optimum future relationship," he said.
"But it is clear the House of Commons has to find a consensus around something, and if it is not the Prime Minister's deal, I think it will be something that is much less to the taste of those of the hard Brexit wing of my party."
Shadow chancellor John McDonnell called on Mr Hammond to get involved in talks on a compromise Brexit option.
Mr McDonnell told Sky: "Philip Hammond said he was opposed to no deal and was interested in compromise.
"We are saying to Philip Hammond 'You said yesterday you and other MPs in your party are looking for compromise. Join us now in working through that compromise, because we think MPs, in the interests of the country, will put party politics aside and do that'."


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We are delighted to welcome Ms Jones as Senior Deputy Head (11-18) at Stephen Perse.
Ms Jones will be joining Stephen Perse from her roles as Deputy Head Pastoral and DSL at Haberdashers' Girls' School.
Ms Jones will be known to many already. She worked at Stephen Perse for 10 years as a teacher of Classics and as Deputy Head of Senior School from 2015 to 2020, including a term as acting Head. During her time at Stephen Perse Abbey held various roles, including Deputy DSL, Charities Coordinator, Head of PSHE and Citizenship, Head of Year and Assistant Head of KS4.
Ms Jones therefore brings to the role an excellent pastoral and safeguarding leadership background, excellent academic and pedagogical experience and invaluable knowledge of Stephen Perse.
Ms Jones said: "I am incredibly excited to be returning to the Stephen Perse Foundation as Senior Deputy Head 11-18 in September after what will be two years away as Deputy Head Pastoral at Haberdashers' Girls' School in Elstree. My time working in a different school has given me fresh perspectives and ideas which I am looking forward to bringing back with me to Stephen Perse.
My key focus, more so than ever after the past two years of disruption for young people, is on student wellbeing in the broadest sense: ensuring that the structures and systems are there to support each individual throughout their school journey to be themselves, develop to realise their potential and have a fantastic time doing it.
After studying Classics at Warwick University, I did my PGCE and a Masters in Education at Cambridge. Outside of school, I like to spend as much time as I can in the countryside, and I also love skiing. I am returning to Stephen Perse as I believe it has an exciting future ahead, especially with the new leadership team in place, and I am really looking forward to being back working with our amazing students and staff from September."

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China 2007 #7 - Yangshuo (October 23-26)
On the third day in Yangshuo we hit the bikes again, cruising through random villages and farming areas. Lots of stuff growing out here... rice, sweet potatoes, chestnuts, taro root, sesame seeds, chili peppers, mint, mandarin oranges, pomelo, bamboo (for food and construction), tea, eggplant, and more. Gops brought along and lit of a string of 1000 firecrackers in a pleasant little valley and immediately afterward caught a flat and had his handlebars come loose... how's that for karma? Fortunately, there was a small village less than a kilometer away and in this area it's all too easy to find someone to repair a flat as bikes are the number one mode of transportation.
Once arriving at Guilin Airport we still had another 90+ minute ride to Yangshuo. The Guilin area (Jianxi Province) is known for being scenic and relatively free of air pollution (mostly agricultural). Unfortunately we ran into some bad timing as it was smack dab in the middle of the rice harvest and every farmer was burning off leftover straw. This produced a semi-transparent white haze over the whole region. My initial impression of Yangshuo itself was that it wasn't all that charming, compared to say... Lijiang, but it is practical and convenient.
China 2007 #5 - Hangzhou (October 17-20)
October 17th was mostly a travel day, packing up, etc. I did a little catching up on the site while Cody and Don made a last round through the old city, etc. At about 10:30am we were off to the airport to catch a flight to Hangzhou (about 1600km south). The pollution on the way to the Taiyuan airport was even worse today than when we first arrived. Hangzhou is one of many 'former capitol' cities, a distinction shared by over a dozen Chinese cities. It's also the city that Marco Polo called the most beautiful city in the world. It's located about 2 hours SW of Shanghai and its most well known feature is West Lake, a big and very scenic lake that the city has grown around. It's a very modern Chinese city, much along the lines of Shanghai.
China 2007 #4 - Pingyao (October 15-17)
October 15th mostly involved travel to Ping Yao. October 16th was all Ping Yao. Ping Yao is in Shanxi province, west of Beijing, and part of the Chinese rust belt which produces the huge dust and pollution clouds that float all the way over the Pacific to our neck of the woods. Ping Yao is a UNESCO heritage site, meaning that (like Lijiang) it's required to maintain a certain degree of authenticity. A newer city has been built around it, but the area within the ancient city walls remains mostly the same in appearance as a hundred years ago, except that the functionality of structures has changed (e.g., what once was a Ming era family home might now be a hostel). Ping Yao is the site of the first bank in China, and was the financial capitol of China in the 19th and 20th centuries until Shanghai replaced it.
China 2007 #3 - Beijing (October 14)
Today Wei offered to take us to the next destination, the Simatai section of the Great Wall. It took a two hour bus and another hour in a cramped taxi (normal) to arrive there (taxi ride roughly 65km, cost of taxi 100 yuan or about $14). The Simatai section of the Wall is much less visited than the more famous Badaling and Mutianyu sections, which are swarmed by tourists and vendors. One reason may be because it's more exercise than the average tourist is interested in. There's a steep climb if you want to start at the top and walk down, otherwise plan on climbing a few thousand irregular steps that are almost as steep as the mountainside. Looks like they picked the hardest place for an army to cross, and to build a wall, and slapped one down anyway.
On the other hand, the views are much better at Simatai and it's in a more original condition. Some sections you have to skirt around as they're not safe enough to use.


To be deeply disappointed with this world is perhaps strange and radical. After all, it sure seems—at least on the surface—that this world is all we get. As a child, I recall being totally charmed by the fantasy of Disney. With a courageous, brightly positive attitude and a little luck, life could be full of all things good and wonderful; in the now famous lyrics sung by Louis Armstrong, this could be "a wonderful world." But life hasn't turned out that way—and this is not my experience alone. The failed promise of deep, lasting fulfillment in this world is the experience of every thoughtful, semi-reflective person who ever traced steps in the dirt of this earth.
How does one make sense of life's haunting disappointments? I recently reread the words of Solomon, the King of Israel at the pinnacle of its power and wealth, who asked God for great wisdom. God answered his prayer in a powerful and unusual way, for there is reason to believe that Solomon was the "wisest sinner" who ever walked the earth. Ecclesiastes is the collection of Solomon's poetic reflections on the "landscape of human existence." There I discovered some profoundly helpful observations, insights, and perspectives on this life.
Solomon's opening remarks reflect the conclusions to his observations of reality and human experience: "'Vanity of Vanity,' says the Preacher, 'Vanity of vanities! All is vanity (futility)!'" Solomon's picture of life's vistas is not uplifting. (Apparently he was not a positive thinker!) Why is his vision so dark?
Solomon makes clear from the beginning of his poetic commentary that he is setting out on an important "task." The first part of his task will be to experience and to accomplish all things within his power to think, to feel, and to do "under the sun." The second part of his task, he tells us, will be to ponder, to evaluate, and to assess the worth, substance, quality, and lasting value of all he experiences and accomplishes. Solomon says, "I will set my mind to seek and explore by wisdom concerning all that has been done under heaven." His task is to weigh in the balance of his insight and wisdom the ultimate worth of the things of this life.
Solomon commits himself to using his special gift of wisdom to plumb the depths of life's promise of fulfillment. He says: "Behold, I have magnified and increased wisdom more than all who were over Jerusalem before me; and my mind has observed a wealth of wisdom and knowledge." Clearly, this task is the deepest, most vital undertaking Solomon could possibly assume, and he assumes it with all the resources, energy, and wisdom he can muster. He says he will: (1) test the fullness and pleasures that unlimited hedonism offers; (2) explore the benefits and promise of entrepreneurship and artful industry and all the wealth generated by those endeavors; and (3) test the limits and fullness of strenuous and elaborately successful labor on a scale by which only the richest man in the world could afford to challenge himself. And the evidence in Ecclesiastes clearly shows that Solomon committed himself to extracting from the widest range of human experience all the possible fulfillment this life could offer him—with the energy and commitment of a man attempting to wring blood from rocks.
Solomon tests each arena of human endeavor and pleasure, and with deliberate, sobering clarity he concludes that all is ultimately futile. He informs us that his human experience—an archetype for the experience all human creatures—fails to present him with truly substantive fulfillment. The futility Solomon feels does not negate the earthly wonders, pleasures, and temporary kinds of fulfillment that come from all his endeavors. Solomon sees, however, that what the world offers is inherently incapable of fulfilling the human heart as it was designed to be fulfilled. The futility of which Solomon speaks comes from assessing the good things of this worldly existence by another criterion.
What is Solomon's criterion for determining fulfillment? He gives us a clue when he states that God has created us with "eternity in our hearts." That is, we are constitutionally beings of and exist in matter and time, but God has placed the yearning for "timelessness" at the core of our living, breathing selves. Solomon admits that he can derive genuine pleasure—a temporal fulfillment—from his accomplishments, but he finds that his accomplishments fail to yield the quality of fulfillment for which he yearns. And, Solomon observes, even the good things in this world—friends, family, simple appreciation of hard work—and the world's "flashier" offerings—power, wealth, pleasure—are all ultimately left under a pale of empty futility when seen in light of the inevitable "leveler" of all human greatness: death. Solomon rightly observes that death's sting is fatal to visions of human greatness and fulfillment. He understands that an altogether different kind of fulfillment must be his if he is to possess true fulfillment.
Solomon's conclusion makes sense in the biblical world view. If we were created for eternal things, we cannot ultimately be fulfilled by finite, albeit good, things in this temporal existence.
Solomon's dark vision of life is disturbing. Some would argue that the picture of human existence Solomon paints is too pessimistic. They would argue that the redemptive promise and provision of God that the New Testament presents offers us much more than does Solomon's picture; Solomon simply didn't have the New Testament picture. Believers today need only "make the right choices and appropriate that new life in faith" because, as is commonly taught, God has made available to us all the resources for freedom and victory in this life, and these provisions and resources are guaranteed by the death and resurrection of Christ. Indeed, many would argue that to ignore these grace-filled resources is unbiblical and tantamount to listening to the enemy. I agree that Christ's promise ultimately and gloriously overcomes Solomon's incomplete and pessimistic picture. Clearly, however, the New Testament pictures struggle, pain, suffering, and only fleeting kinds of fulfillment this side of the resurrection. Believers today just have a clearer picture of God's solution to futility than did Solomon.
How then should I view the facts of existence which Solomon portrays so poignantly? True, Solomon's vision of life in Ecclesiastes is difficult to embrace; it cuts against the grain of our "just-think-positive" culture. I think Solomon is correct, however, in concluding that the deepest fulfillment, spiritual fulfillment, for God's broken creatures is the gift we will experience in the next world—the new heavens and new earth—not in this one.
God does not withhold tragedy, failure, and complex dilemmas from the life of the church and believers today. God does not guarantee believers a kind of success in this world that can be compared to what awaits us in the new heavens and new earth. This world, the Bible makes clear from Genesis through the New Testament, is "subjected to futility" (Romans 8:18-25). And this futility—"wired into" a fallen, rebellious creation—results in an uncanny void of deep and lasting fulfillment in all human relationships, things, and accomplishments. Elements within this creation grant us fleeting tastes of good things, but the lasting things—things that stand the test of eternity—will not be ours in this world.
In our contemporary Christian culture—shot through with the pop-psychology of a positive, can-do, self-image view of life—the perspective I am advocating will be difficult for many to embrace. But I think God's gracious irony is at work here. God intends futility in this life to be our friend and "tutor," capable of leading us to wisdom and a deep desire for eternal things. God determined this world to be an arena of trial in which our salvation is "hammered" out. The way I see it, Solomon's task is my task. I am in this world to become a "philosopher" in the sense that I am to make my life a quest like Solomon's. I am to "test this life," to search as Solomon did for what promises lasting human fulfillment. And when in my quest I find only the partial, the temporal, the fleeting kinds of fulfillments—though many are full of goodness and wonder—I conclude as Solomon did that life in this world does not offer me enough.
Futility, then, has become my friend and tutor. Futility's pain and emptiness will force me to conclude that living in this world—even as a believer—offers only a pale fulfillment when compared to the kind awaiting me. This life is a staging area used by my Creator to transform me from a creature of death and futility to one filled with life. I should let my Solomonic "task" lead me to the lifeline from eternity: faith in the love and mercy of my Creator which tethers me to a Hope of deep, true, fulfillment in the coming Kingdom.
Copyright January 1996 by McKenzie Study Center, an institute of Gutenberg College.


Register Log In wirral forums Forums Ask - Wiki Wirral Sun east to west ?
Hoping someone can explain in basic terms.
In the UK the sun rises in the east and set's in the west, appearing to rotate clockwise.
Will use Australia as example, I presume sun still travels east to west however would it appear to rotate anti-clockwise ?
Yes, the old problem of saying something turns clockwise or anticlockwise but it depends which direction you are looking down the axis.
Same with a car wheel, all four wheels rotate in the same physical direction but if the car is going forwards, looking at the car from the offside all the wheels are going clockwise, but look from the nearside and they are all going anti-clockwise. I'll let you work out what happens if you look from the middle of the car.
Still confused . . . which is not that unusual.
Spin a coin/ball on a table, look at which direction it is spinning when you look at it from above, then think about what direction it would be spinning if you looked from below (or if you have a glass table you can actually look).
Emptying bath water definitely changes from anti-clockwise to clockwise from one side of the equator to the other. Seen it.
I'm afraid that is a bit of a myth. The effect of the rotation of the earth exists but the bath water stillness and plughole would have to be near perfect for this to be the overriding factor. The movement of the water before pulling the plug, intentional design or minor imperfections are the dominant factors that govern the direction.
If you pre-spin the water slightly then pull the plug you can see it happen for yourself.
If the water is already spinning, you can convince it to spin the other way and it will remain in that direction usually.
Sorry, DD . Have to disagree. I have had a bath in the northern hemisphere and the southern hemisphere, on the ocean waves. The emptying bath water changed direction when emptying in spiral or swirl, (whatever you want to call it.) from the northern hemisphere to the southern hemisphere.
The only scientific experiments that confirmed this effect had to have the water left totally undisturbed for 18 hours prior to the plughole being opened. How minute the force is was demonstrated when it took 12 minutes to start vortexing.
Sod the science. Scientists are not always correct. I have confirmed it and so have the following. Just maybe there is too much electrical interference on land to mess things up a bit. High rise apartments and koala bears.
Andrew Dickens is wrong. The water does vortex in different directions north and south of the equator - dodgy wash basin manufacurers my eye! I've observed the phenomenon in my own hotel room, as I'm sure have millions of others.
The Coriolis effect does indeed influence the direction that water 'vortices' down a plughole - I have tried this several times during my time as a merchant seaman, at various latitudes North and South of the equator. The effect is stronger closer to the poles, at the equator the water can rotate in either direction, and on one occasion near the equator, appeared to go straight down the plughole without any rotation !!
As to your second question, I believe Mercury does not spin on its axis but maintains its position as it orbits the sun, leading to a permanent day side and a permanent night side as does our moon. And to add to the other debate, I have seen the water rotate one way in a bath in Melbourne and the other way in my bath at home, both baths were pretty similar in structure!
Sorry but The guy at the equator that showed me A. didn't charge me B. used one plastic bucket with a hole in the bottom (none of this three sink nonsense) C. allowed me to try and force the water to rotate in different directions, each time it returned to the direction it started in depending on which side of the equator we were.
I have walked across the equator 7 times now!!! The reason the water spins different ways on different sides is related to the moon and the earth, the sun and the other planets!!! - and the way the earth is tilted!!!!
So you're still totally foxed then Dilly?
Yes me too, mine are bouncing around. I just want to get a simple answer a yes or no.
Does the sun appear to travel anti clockwise downunder.
However, there are some people in Australia who think that their continent should be at the top of maps and the globe, and the UK and Europe at the bottom. If their idea is to put them next to the North Pole, then the sun would rise in the West, and therefore time would go backwards.


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Aristotle on Diviners
Posted by Diana Hsieh on 24 June 2006 at 6:01 am	Aristotle
Skeptics — in the sense of debunkers of paranormal claims — often observe that supposed psychics usually speak in vague generalities, subtly allow their audience to fill in the details, then claim to have divined that information. So the psychics seem to know a great deal that they couldn't possibly know — at least to the gullible eager to believe. To my delight, Aristotle makes the same basic point in his Rhetoric. In the course of offering five elements of the "correctness of language" at "the foundation of good style," he says:
(3) The third is to avoid ambiguities; unless, indeed, you definitely desire to be ambiguous, as those do who have nothing to say but are pretending to mean something. Such people are apt to put that sort of thing into verse. Empedocles, for instance, by his long circumlocutions imposes on his hearers; these are affected in the same way as most people are when they listen to diviners, whose ambiguous utterances are received with nods of acquiescence-
Croesus by crossing the Halys will ruin a mighty realm.
Diviners use these vague generalities about the matter in hand because their predictions are thus, as a rule, less likely to be falsified. We are more likely to be right, in the game of 'odd and even', if we simply guess 'even' or 'odd' than if we guess at the actual number; and the oracle-monger is more likely to be right if he simply says that a thing will happen than if he says when it will happen, and therefore he refuses to add a definite date. All these ambiguities have the same sort of effect, and are to be avoided unless we have some such object as that mentioned.
The line about Croesus refers to this great story recounted by Herodotus.
As for those who "definitely desire to be ambiguous," such as "those do who have nothing to say but are pretending to mean something," I'd like to nominate the academic work of Chris Sciabarra. For example, consider the "Dialectics in Rand's Philosophy" section of "this essay. (It's a slightly edited version of the initial discussion of Ayn Rand's supposed "dialectics" from the introduction to The Russian Radical, pages 16-18.) Here's a taste:
It is this emphasis on the totality that is essential to the dialectical mode of inquiry. Dialectics is not merely a repudiation of formal dualism. It is a method that preserves the analytical integrity of the whole. While it recommends study of the whole from the vantage point of any part, it eschews reification, that is, it avoids the abstraction of a part from the whole and its illegitimate conceptualization as a whole unto itself. The dialectical method recognizes that what is separable in thought is not separable in reality.
Moreover, dialectics requires the examination of the whole both systemically and historically. From a systemic perspective, it grasps the parts as structurally interrelated, or "internally related," both constituting the whole, while being constituted by it. For example, Rand, as a dialectical thinker, would not disconnect any single theoretical issue, such as the problem of free will, from its broader philosophic context. She necessarily examines a host of connected issues, including the efficacy of consciousness, the nature of causality, and the reciprocal relationships between epistemology, ethics, and politics.
From a historical perspective, dialectics grasps that any system emerges over time, that it has a past, a present, and a future. Frequently, the dialectical thinker examines the dynamic tensions within a system, the internal conflicts or "contradictions" which require resolution. He or she refuses to disconnect factors, events, problems, and issues from each other or from the system which they jointly constitute. He or she views social problems not discretely, but in terms of the root systemic conditions which they both reflect and sustain.
The dialectical thinker seeks not merely to understand the system, but to alter it fundamentally. Hence, a dialectical analysis is both critical and revolutionary in its implications. Thus, Rand, as a dialectical thinker, does not analyze a specific racial conflict, for example, without examining a host of historically-constituted epistemic, ethical, psychological, cultural, political, and economic factors that both generate racism–and perpetuate it. In Rand's view, racism–like all vestiges of statism–must be transcended systemically.
Translation from Polish: Ayn Rand integrated her knowledge.
Analytic philosophers are often terrible writers, often to the point that their basic ideas cannot be understood. However, the brazen assertion of deliberate obfuscation as complex and difficult thought requires the slippery goo of postmodernism. And that's exactly what Chris Sciabarra uses to conceal the lack of substance in his academic writings. And yes, I do think the impenetrable style of the above passage — and the rest of The Russian Radical — is deliberate obfuscation rather than incompetence or laziness. The tip-off is not merely the lack of substance underneath all those fancy words, nor the careful consistency of the style, but the simple fact that Chris routinely writes clearly and forthrightly in other contexts. So he can do better, but chooses not to.
Thankfully, most academic philosophers disdain the bullshit style practiced by Chris Sciabarra and his postmodern brothers. If they didn't, I surely would have quit philosophy long ago.
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Giorgi Kwirikaszwili (gruz. გიორგი კვირიკაშვილი; ur. 20 lipca 1967 w Tbilisi) – gruziński polityk, w latach 2012–2015 minister gospodarki i zrównoważonego rozwoju, od 1 września do 30 grudnia 2015 minister spraw zagranicznych, od 26 lipca 2013 do 30 grudnia 2015 wicepremier, od 30 grudnia 2015 do 20 czerwca 2018 premier Gruzji.

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Giorgi Kwirikaszwili urodził się w Tbilisi. W latach 1986–1988 odbył zasadniczą służbę wojskową. W 1991 roku ukończył studia na Akademii Medycznej w Tbilisi, otrzymując dyplom z medycyny wewnętrznej. Studiował też na Tbiliskim Uniwersytecie Państwowym w Tbilisi, gdzie w 1995 roku uzyskał dyplom z ekonomii. W 1998 roku ukończył studia na Uniwersytecie w Illinois, uzyskując tytuł magistra finansów.

25 października 2012 po wygranych przez partię Gruzińskie Marzenie wyborach parlamentarnych, został powołany na stanowisko ministra gospodarki i zrównoważonego rozwoju w rządzie Bidziny Iwaniszwilego. 26 lipca 2013 dodatkowo został powołany na urząd wicepremiera. 2 listopada 2013 premier Bidzina Iwaniszwili ogłosił, że zrezygnuje ze stanowiska premiera Gruzji i zastąpi go dotychczasowy minister spraw wewnętrznych Irakli Garibaszwili. 20 listopada 2013 został zaprzysiężony rząd Garibaszwilego, gdzie Kwirikaszwili pozostał na stanowiskach wicepremiera i ministra z poprzedniego rządu. Urząd ministra gospodarki sprawował do 1 września 2015, kiedy to został powołany przez premiera Garibaszwiliego na stanowisko szefa resortu spraw zagranicznych.

23 grudnia 2015 w wystąpieniu telewizyjnym premier Irakli Garibaszwili ogłosił swoją dymisję. Giorgi Kwirikaszwili został mianowany do objęcia funkcji szefa rządu. 30 grudnia 2015 gruziński parlament udzielił mu wotum zaufania.

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Giorgi Kwirikaszwili jest żonaty. Ma czworo dzieci.

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Should I call him and let him know I'm interested or would that be too forward? I'm very attracted to him and thought that we had a lot in common.
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I am worried about making the wrong move after so much bad luck and I am soooo ready to meet someone special and get engaged by the end of the year. Joanie in Springfield, Ma Hi Joanie, Please, you must not come from a desperate place. Remember what you have to offer and don't get fixated on another's opinion of you.
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In 2011 Freya Dane, a Ph.D. candidate in archaeology, arrives on the ancient Scottish island of Findnar. After years of estrangement from her father, himself an archaeologist who recently died, Freya has come to find out what she can about his work. As she reads through his research notes, she sees he learned a great deal about the Viking and Christian history of the island. But what he found only scratches the surface of the discoveries Freya is about to make.
In 800 A.D. a Pictish girl named Signy loses her entire family during a Viking raid. She is taken in by the surviving members of the Christian community on Findnar, but when she falls deeply in love with a Viking boy, she is cast out. She eventually becomes a nun and finds herself at the center of the clash between the island's three religious cultures. The tragedy of her story is that, in the end, she must choose among her adopted faith, her native religion, and the man she loves.
Centuries apart, Freya and Signy are each on the verge of life-changing events that will bring present-day and Viking-era Scotland together. The Island House plunges the reader into a past that never dies and a love that reaches out across a thousand years.
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In fear and frustration, the boy cried out to his mother: "Why you gave me birth?" Finally, at 16, total blindness closed out the world. In despair, he walked onto a bridge, determined to commit suicide. He gripped the railing. His arms tensed. He looked at the water far below, paused indecisively, then walked off the bridge.
"Shinbo told me, 'That must be waves,' and I answered, 'I don't think so.' I thought it was a whale. But he just went back to sleep. But just as I thought, I started hearing the water coming in — slosh, slosh, slosh.
"I taught and practiced acupuncture in Tokyo for 14 years, but when I moved here, I realized there are tons of people who doesn't like needles.


Male sexual function improves with exercise.
and 18 or more MET hours as highly active (24% of the sample).
active men, 72 for moderately active men, and 70 for highly active men.
The trend was statistically significant.
defined a sexual function score of less than 40 as sexual dysfunction.
physical activity were 65% less likely to have sexual dysfunction.
Data Source: Study of 178 healthy men.
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A muzzle brake is a firearm attachment that extends the barrel of the gun. Below is a picture of a muzzle brake.
The point of a muzzle brake is to help increase accuracy by reducing vertical recoil when fired. It does this by venting out the gas horizontally in the muzzle brake, rather than letting it spread out in all directions as the bullet exits the barrel. When fired, a large amount of pressurized gas is created within the barrel, and immediately tries to escape, launching a bullet one way, and the gun back. When the gas reaches the muzzle brake, it has its first chance to fully escape and spread out, so it vents out the horizontally-aligned holes, creating a leftward and rightward force, rather than vertical forces.
So if this pressurized gas is shooting out the sides of this muzzle brake, it must be more concentrated. And if it's more concentrated, it must be more powerful. But what else could make it more powerful?
PSA: CLEAN YOUR FIREARMS AFTER USE.
Now let's take a look at a .50 BMG. Prepare yourself.
So yes, a muzzle brake will break stuff, quite spectacularly. But if you want to break stuff with a muzzle brake, it will cover you gun, not so spectacularly. Still, an interesting thought, especially when you consider that many tanks or artillery (or artillery tanks) have giant muzzle brakes on them. Maybe they could flip a car.
Personally I am a trebuchet guy but that is neither of our faults simply things are without reason, explanation or blame. People deserve to be happy.


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Starring: Tom Wilkinson, Laura Linney, Jennifer Carpenter, Campbell Scott
Directed by: Scott Derrickson
The Exorcism of Emily Rose is marketed as a horror film, complete with suitably scary, jumpy trailer and eerie poster. Marketing, however, can be misleading. The film is in fact more a courtroom drama, with the odd bit of (fairly lame) horror thrown in for good measure.
Based on true events, the film tells the story of Emily Rose (Jennifer Carpenter), a sensitive college student from the American sticks, who believes she is possessed by demons. Rejecting the epilepsy drugs prescribed by her doctor, she instead places her life in the hands of the family priest, Father Richard Moore (Tom Wilkinson), who also believes that her condition has spiritual rather than physical causes. And yet, after an unsuccessful exorcism, Emily Rose dies, and Father Moore is arrested and charged with negligent homicide. Step up hotshot lawyer Erin Bruner (the ever likeable Laura Linney) a self-professed 'woman of doubt' who soon finds herself wondering if there is, after all, more to this heaven and hell thing than she thought. Dot, dot, dot.
So far so corny, but don't get me wrong, the film does have its moments. The courtroom scenes are intelligent and compelling, and the moments when we witness Emily Rose's possession, really quite horrific. No pea soup spew or levitating here, but Jennifer Carpenter has a fine line in sickening screaming, blank eyes rolling and tortured, twisted spinal gymnastics. A pity, then, that we saw all her finest moments in the trailer.
However, I could have done without the many tedious 'waking at 3am to spooky whispering' moments - face it, dark corridors and thunderstorms really aren't that frightening - and even a sterling actor like Tom Wilkinson can't get away with the crass lines that poor Father Moore is saddled with: 'There are dark forces surrounding this trial,' he intones, sounding like a cross between Obi Wan Kenobi and Professor Dumbledore. 'You must take care.' Then there's the rubbish CGI and the somewhat obvious, Omen-esque 'death of key witness' scene too. We saw it coming a mile off - just a shame the witness didn't.
An uneven film, then, but not an uninteresting one. It certainly raises some fascinating questions - the principal one for me being, why does the devil bother? If you were the Prince of Darkness, would you want to possess a powerless college girl, destroy her body and soul then feebly taunt her priest and, um, his lawyer, by waking them up at three in the morning opening and shutting doors? Strange.
As the film draws to a close we discover that Emily, a deeply religious Catholic, believed that her terrible ordeal had a purpose: to prove to our blinkered, secular society that demons really exist. Father Moore risks years of imprisonment in order to make her story public, yet the film itself sits on the fence, refusing to commit itself either way. This may seem unfair, but it also reflects the story of the real Emily Rose, who was actually German and called Anneliese Michel (you can read about her here). No-one will ever know for sure if Emily/Anneliese was really possessed, but the possibility that she might have been is enough to wake me up at three in morning. Can you smell burning? Oh, crap...
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Dominion: Prequel to The Exorcist


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The internet is crammed full of available torrents. Some of these torrents are illegal, malicious and of poor quality. Furthermore, there are many torrent sites out there which are more reliable than others. Most of us are well aware that some torrent sites walk a fine line when it comes to legality and should be used with discretion. However, there are actually some torrent sites out there which are legal to use. If you want to use a torrent site which is not only legal but of actual good quality, there are few worth mentioning. It certainly narrows down things considerably, but there are in fact legal torrent sites which harbor many fantastic torrents.
Within this post, I have laid out for you some of the finest legal torrent sites which I recommend if you are in search of torrents the legal way. I have reviewed each site, pointing out the pros and cons, and basically how to use them. (The websites are in no particular ranking order).
Before that, you must know how to download and use a torrent file.
This site is dedicated solely to free audiobooks. All of the featured audiobooks on this website are the property of the public domain and are therefore perfectly legal to be shared/downloaded. You will find thousands of great audiobooks here, from old classics to contemporary novels. The website offers an extensive search, and you can, if you prefer, join the online community by creating an account. You can furthermore offer yourself to become a reader.
"100% legally free media". First on this list is Let Torrents, which is exactly what it claims to be. The site is very simple, effective and should only take a few seconds to figure out. There are no sign-ups required in order to use this site. On entering the site, you will find the search bar in which you will enter what you're looking for. Legit Torrents offers movie torrents, music torrents, as well as games, literature and image torrents. There may not be as many torrents available here as many of the larger, more illegal websites, but this is simply because all of these torrents are certified as legal. There is a generous offering of 22 pages of movies, for example, which isn't bad at all. Furthermore, Legit Torrents displays the seeds and leecher information, as well as the date the torrent was added and other information. To download a torrent, simply click on the black floppy disc icon.
All things considered, this website is as basic as it comes, and it has a fair amount of torrents on offer, including movies, music, books, software, and games. It is well and truly a legit legal torrent site.
On the 'about' page, the website self-claims, "Bitlove creates Torrents for all enclosures of an RSS/ATOM feed and seeds them". The website specializes in podcasts, supplying people with peer-to-peer torrenting for all lovers of podcasts. There are, however, torrents which are not solely related to podcasts, but ultimately not that many. To discover the torrents on this site, you can simply use the search bar, explore the 'new' page, the 'top' page, or the 'directory' page. All of the vital information on seeds, peers, etc. is clearly displayed. To download a torrent, all you have to do is click on the large green download buttons. I highly encourage people to use this site if they want to download free, quality, and important legal podcasts.
If you are searching for software programmes for a Linux system, Linux Tracker has a huge library of free Linux-related software torrents. This website has a huge community of online Linux users, who have shared and even created most of the programmes which are available through this site. To download the torrents, you will find all the necessary information on the tables of torrents. It takes one simple click to begin a download, and lots of the torrents have copious amounts of seeds and peers.
Mininova has been a popular torrent site for many years now. At present, it still keeps its well-earned title as one of the best torrent sites on the net. Mininova has vowed to keep copyright laws and is thus a website dedicated to providing completely legal torrents. There are thousands of legit torrents on Mininova, most of which are popular movies, popular music, books, games, and software. The site is very easy to use, and the torrents are nicely laid out with all the valuable information, such as seeds, peers, etc. You can browse many categories or use the advanced search option, which will help you track down your desired torrent. Ultimately, Mininova has heaps of torrents, perhaps more than any other site on this list, and it claims to be 100% legal.
Frostclick is a torrent site which looks like no other. It is not exactly a search engine, like Mininova, for example, but a more contemporary website with lots of visual displays and information. Frostclick aims to scope the web for the best, free and completely legal media torrents. All of the music and other files shared on this website are given complete consent by the distributors.
The overall appearance of this website is one of its most praiseworthy attributes. Besides the displays, there are many torrents, such as musical torrents, movie torrents, software, games, and other torrents. You will find the 'free download' button on the page after you have selected something you like.
Panda is designed specifically for budding musicians who have agreed to the legal and free distribution of their music. In order to access all of this great free music from independent artists, you can sign up for free. On the other hand, you can also access torrents without having to create an account. Each artist has a lot of featured information. Think of it as an Amazon in which you can get your music without having to pay or wait the few days for delivery.
This concludes the post on the best legal torrent sites. My personal favorite would have to be Mininova, but all of the featured sites specialize in different areas.


So the screen is 2.8", only 0.2" bigger than the N95-3 and N95-1. That is the worst description of the screen. I use to think about it like that before I got my hands on the N95-4. The screen seems siginificantly bigger in person. It is gorgeous, and it's pretty nice to load up your own videos or stream videos and watch it in landscape. The bigger screen allows for an extra standby icon as well. There is talk about how with the same resolution, when a screen gets bigger, you see more pixelated artifacts. I've never come across it on the N95-4 (my eyes can't tell), so don't let that talk be a deal breaker for you.
The slider has a different feel compared to the N95-3 that I have on me right now. To slide the N95-3, it feels tight throughout the whole slide motion, and pops into place at either ends. The N95-4 feels hollow when sliding from one end to another. It's not necessarily a bad thing, it's just that it feels different, especially the first couple of days that you use the phone.
What's important to me besides the quality of the pictures taken on the phone is actually how fast the camera is initiated and ready to snap pics. It takes about 3-4 seconds, which is OK, but not as fast as the N82. In terms of taking sequential pictures (how long it takes to take a 2nd picture after the first one is taken) is also decent for a phone, almost the same as the N82.
The phone has 8GB of memory, enough for 90% of users (even for me believe it or not). However the speed of transferring content to or from the phone is painfully slow. It tops out about 0.7 MB/s over USB cable. For me this isn't a big deal, because I don't transfer content and music to my phone often, and certainly rarely before I leave the house. If you're that type of person who tries to load your phone with music the last minute before you leave the house, you'll be extremely disappointed. If not, then you'll survive.
The Home Media application allows the N95-4 to become a client or a server of multimedia on your home network. The N95-4 allows you to stream or remotely watch content without downloading it (unlike the N95-3 which you have to download it to the phone in the latest firmware). However just like Ewan from AAS has pointed out, this applications needs to be revamped. Half the times it won't stream the content, and the interface and menu options are a little clunky for a Nseries device. A few times I've also been booted from the application which just adds to my frustration. It's also a pity that they took out the shortcut from the Gallery and left everything in the Home Media application. On the N95-3 all you have to do is set it up, and then you really don't need to go back to it to access your home network, you just go to the gallery.
The phone's design is almost 2 years old, therefore it wasn't designed with N-gage gaming in mind. The phone is only good for one-handed gaming. During this time I tried using it with FIFA 08, and although it has great graphics for a cell phone, it's challenging using two hands to play the game. However using one hand, the learning curve is short and the controls are pretty straight forward. It's just a pity that the N95 8GB can't be used in landscape mode for practical gaming. The prominent bug that I came across was that the half the times the games would load in landscape mode although clearly the phone was in portrait mode.
Well, for the first few days I thought that the phone is pretty stable. it is pretty stable when you have no applications at all. One you put a dozen applications or more, you can notice the difference with the speed of the menus. I was at a point that I'd experience 4-5 reboots in a week. This might not sound a big deal, but it is when 1 of those times on average is when you're trying to make a phone call. This can be fixed with future firmware updates, so I'm not too worried about it.
So do I think if it's worth it over the N95-1 and N95-3? I'd say definitely over the N95-1. More RAM, bigger battery, bigger screen, more functional in the US. Is it worth upgrading from the N95-3? Maybe, depending on how much extra you have to pony up. If you can upgrade for less than $100, then I'd say it's a no brainer and you should go ahead. If you're in a crossroads between the N95-3 and N95-4, go with the N95-4. It looks better and has a great screen.


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Nifty and Bank Nifty 90 min charts turned to positional buy mode since 26 Dec 2012, Currently the support zone is coming near 5880 and 12398 respectively. Be in the long side until the support holds. Reverse your positional shorts if the support zone breaks.
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Though Nifty is in buy mode it is still trading below the intermediate resistance zone 5274 and 10329 and the cloud supports coming near 5196 and 10159. Further positional longs should be initiated only if the intermediate resistance zone breaks on the upper side until then its stay away from Longs.
Nifty and Bank Nifty 90 min charts are shown. Nifty is continuing its sell mode with cloud resistance coming near 5264 and 200MA resistance at 5299.
Nifty and Bank Nifty are in Sell mode since the day of budget. Currently the ichimoku cloud resistance comes near to 5349 and 10507 respectively. Reverse your position to long if the resistance zone breaks on the 90 min charts.


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Winter
 Standaardtijd (in landen en gebieden waar periodiek zomertijd gebruikt wordt)
 Wintertijd (televisieprogramma), een Nederlands praatprogramma

Zie ook
 Wintertime (doorverwijspagina)