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There are a lot of ways to take vitamins either in a pill form, or in a liquid form, or through any other substance. But nowadays liquid vitamins are in high demand because of its various benefits. Some people face a problem in swallowing the tablet and even the taste is quite bitter, therefore people are switching towards liquid vitamins because it is easy to intake and even the flavour is also quite pleasant. Some of the benefits are listed below:
The Spectrum of Important Nutrients: In a simple and convenient way, liquid nutrients deliver over 100 beneficial and essential nutrients in just one or two convenient doses. The flavours are taken out from different types of fruits extracts in order to make it pleasant and full of vitamins for the drinker.
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By looking at the above advantages, one can surely go for liquid vitamins without any second thought, as it has always resulted in better outputs as compared to synthetic tablets. Also, they are available within easy reach and with every chemist, so buying becomes easier and affordable.


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Jim Miller on Politics
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Three Copies Of Windows: Time for a little computer geek discussion, which you can, of course, ignore if you wish. Yesterday, I think I finally figured out what all Hewlett-Packard installed on my new laptop.
First, of all, there is the main NTFS partition, which contains the working copy of Windows and the application programs. About 8 gigabytes* of spaces is being used. After that comes a FAT32 partition, which is, not coincidentally, about 8 gigabytes. That partition, it became clear from the very sketchy documentation, holds a recovery copy of the operating system and the applications. Finally, at the very end of the disk drive, there is an unidentified 1 gigabyte partition. I am fairly sure that the last partition is used for the direct play programs.
(The laptop, like many others sold now, can play DVDs and CDs without booting into Windows, or perhaps I should say without booting the full Windows system. There is a power key on the top left, which turns the computer on and off, as usual. To the right of the power key are two keys, one for playing DVDs and one for playing CDs. If you press one of those keys, the computer starts, but does not load a full copy of Windows, though it does display a Windows boot screen. You then put in the disk and play the movie or music. This is quicker and, as I understand it, uses less of the battery than playing them under Windows. And I should add that movies look pretty good on the 17 inch screen and the music from the Altec-Lansing speakers isn't too bad, either, though I suspect that a real audiophile would switch to earphones immediately. I am fairly sure that the system that runs these players is stored in that mysterious third partition.)
Altogether, Hewlett-Packard used about 10 percent of the not too large hard drive so that it would not have to supply me with two or three DVDs that would let me reinstall the operating system and applications. (If they had supplied DVDs, I would have begun by reinstalling the system, since that would let me get rid of the programs I didn't want.) It would be interesting to know why HP chose this other course — though it is common in recent years. Perhaps it cuts down on user-caused disasters.
All that description is now in the past tense. While I was writing this post, I was also repartitioning the laptop's hard drive and installing SuSE Linux 10.1 in the last third of the hard drive. SuSE is now mostly working, though I have to add networking and some other features. I used Partition Commander (version 9) to do the partitioning, and it worked like a charm. (WARNING: Partitioning programs are powerful tools and should be used with extreme caution. Though I have done this many times before, I did not proceed with the partitioning until I had made sure that I could boot with my recovery CDs. And I would have done a full back up if I had any data on the laptop.)
(Some will wonder why 8 gigabytes, since, as large as Windows is, it should not take that much space. I haven't checked, but I think much of it is devoted to a trial copy of Microsoft Office.)
- 4:48 PM, 8 August 2006 [link]
Will Lamont Defeat Lieberman In The Primary? In July, I said that I thought Lieberman was the strong favorite, and that, if defeated in the primary, he would certainly win running as an independent in the general election.
Since then, his challenger, Ned Lamont, has opened up a significant lead, though Lieberman had probably cut the gap in the last week. Does he have "Joementum"? Perhaps. But as of now, I would have to rate Lamont as the solid favorite, and say that it is no longer entirely certain that Lieberman will win the general election, if defeated in the primary.
And if he does lose his seat to Lamont, the country will be worse off.
(Why the uncertainty, given Lamont's lead in the polls? Because polling for primary races is more difficult than polling for general elections. In particular, it is difficult to predict turnout. For what it is worth, election officials are saying that turnout is high, which, if earlier polls are any indication, would help Lieberman.)
- 1:56 PM, 8 August 2006 [link]
This Is Puzzling: Today, the big story in this area is the oil field shutdown in Alaska.
The Seattle PI headline says: "Oil field shutdown will boost gas prices." And other news sources have been giving us the same message.
But these same news sources have been, for years, quoting politicians who told us that opening a small portion of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge for oil drilling would not make any difference in what we paid for gas.
Those two conclusions aren't necessarily in conflict, but they do imply a very strange market for energy. And the second conclusion, that prices would not be lower with additional supply, conflicts with all the historical data on oil prices.
- 12:36 PM, 8 August 2006 [link]
Well, Well, Well: I must admit that the extent of these sentiments surprised me.
MANCHESTER, N.H. - Dick Bennett has been polling New Hampshire voters for 30 years. And he's never seen anything like it.Nearly half hate her, they really hate her.
(For the record, I wouldn't agree with any of those characterizations, though I do have a small criticism or two of my own for New York's junior senator.)
- 3:47 PM, 7 August 2006 [link]
Worth Reading: A pair of columns, one from John Fund, arguing that Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid's obstructionist tactics are bad politics.
Right now, polls show that voters view both parties in the most negative light they ever have. That could mean this fall's election will be a contest to see how many voters stay home. That could work to the advantage of Mr. Reid and his Democrats, but they shouldn't be surprised if their strategy backfires.Fund is probably right; partisans love this kind of fighting, but swing voters mostly despise it. But it is true that in low turnout off year elections, there can be surprises.
And one from Martin Peretz, who is broken hearted over the possibility that Ned Lamont will defeat Joe Lieberman in the Democratic primary tomorrow.
It was then that people like Joe Lieberman emerged, muscular on defense, assertive in foreign policy, genuinely liberal on social and economic matters, but not doctrinaire on regulatory issues. He had marched for civil rights and is committed to an equal opportunity agenda with equal opportunity results. He has qualms about affirmative action. But who, in his hearts of hearts, does not? He is appalled by the abysmal standards of our popular culture and our public discourse. Who really loves our popular culture--or, at least, which parent? He is thoroughly a Democrat. But Mr. Lieberman believes that, in an age of communal and global stress, one would do well to speak with the president (even, on rare occasion, speak well of him) and compromise with him on urgent matters of practical law.(Peretz may be too polite to mention that the Europeans have been doing exactly that — and getting nowhere.)
Together these two columns make a powerful argument. Being obstructionist and catering to the extreme left may please your partisans, but it is unlikely to be a successful strategy for the Democrats, at least in the long run. As a Republican, I can't help but being pleased to see the Democrats behaving foolishly; as an American, I am distressed that we may no longer have two responsible parties. And the second emotion is much stronger than the first.
(Peretz refers to Lamont's great uncle, Corliss Lamont, who may be less well known than he once was. Here's a sappy biography from Wikipedia, which celebrates his career as an advocate for civil liberties, and sees no conflict between that and Lamont's support for the Soviet Union. Here's a clearer sketch from FrontPage. And here's a fine summary of Lamont's career from a man of the democratic left, Oliver Kamm.
Lamont was nominally also a professor of philosophy (at Columbia), whose contributions to that discipline were nugatory, while his apologetics for Stalin outdid in mendacity almost anyone else on the American Left.Wouldn't it be fun if some enterprising reporter asked Ned Lamont if he was not making the same kind of mistakes his great uncle did?)
- 9:29 AM, 7 August 2006
Correction: Corliss Lamont is Ned Lamont's great uncle, not his grandfather. I have corrected the text above.
- 1:32 PM, 8 August 2006 [link]
Of Course The Pictures From Hezbollah Land Are Dishonest: While I was lazing around this week end, other bloggers were catching some Photoshop fraud from Reuters. The key post is this one from Charles Johnson of Little Green Footballs.
This Reuters photograph shows blatant evidence of manipulation. Notice the repeating patterns in the smoke; this is almost certainly caused by using the Photoshop "clone" tool to add more smoke to the image.Shortly after this critique appeared, Reuters stopped distributing the picture and cut all connections with the free lance photographer who had created it, Adnan Hajj.
None of this should come as a surprise to anyone who thinks about how Reuters acquires these photographs. In general, the photographs are taken, not by full time employees of Reuters, but by stringers or free lance photographers who live in the Middle East, often in Lebanon.
And the pictures are taken — and this is the key point — in areas controlled by a terrorist organization, Hezbollah. Now, with that in mind, ask yourself these questions: Which photographers will Hezbollah allow to operate in their territory? What conditions will they impose on those photographers? And what will happen to photographers who displease Hezbollah?
As soon as you think about those questions, the answers should be obvious. Hezbollah will allow only photographers they believe will help their cause. Hezbollah will allow them to operate only as long as they think the photographers are helping the cause of Hezbollah. And photographers who displease Hezbollah will get expelled at best, and murdered at worst. (And Middle East journalists who displeased terrorist organizations have been murdered, from time to time.)
In those circumstances, it would be naive to expect the photographs from Hezbollah Land to be honest, just as it would be naive to expect photographs produced with the cooperation of a communist dictatorship to be honest.
This is not a difficult analysis, at least to anyone even vaguely familiar with the history of the 20th century. But somehow Reuters, and other "mainstream" news organizations, don't make that analysis, or if they do make it, do not act on it. Photograph editors at Reuters accepted this crude forgery, and have accepted many other dubious photographs.
Why are they so gullible? I'm not entirely sure, but I think the desire for access to a hot news area prevents them from seeing what should be obvious, that Hezbollah sees them as a propaganda arm and will do what they can to ensure that Reuters, and other Western news organizations, get the "right" pictures, and stories. (And perhaps, in private, editors at Reuters would admit that they are transmitting propaganda, but justify it by arguing that they have to slant their coverage in order to get access.)
That would explain why Reuters is not planning, as far as I can tell, to investigate the other pictures they have gotten from Haqq. (Or from similar photographers.) Doing an investigation would disturb their relationship with their photographers and make it harder for Reuters to provide photographs from the area. That the photographs are often deceptive, and sometimes blatantly false, is something the people running Reuters don't even want to think about.
(There is another, more sinister, reason that some editors at Reuters might accept these photographs. They might sympathize with Hezbollah. Some months ago, Charles Johnson received a crude death threat, which he traced back to a Reuters internet address.
Both Charles Johnson and Michelle Malkin have other posts on this fake, which you will want to look at to get more of the story.)
- 7:45 AM, 7 August 2006
Ed Driscoll has a fine discussion of the decline in the quality of Reuter's reporting, especially after 9/11. As I did in this post on the New York Times, he criticizes Reuters for their unwillingness to admit mistakes — and to correct them.
- 11:02 AM, 7 August 2006 [link]
Worth Reading: Mark Steyn contemplates a curious statistic; there are said to be 50,000 Canadians in Lebanon.
The scandal is not that the government has been tardy in its evacuation plans for these "50,000 Canadians." The scandal is not even that so many Lebanese have gamed Canada's immigration system. The scandal is that there's no system to game and, with the exception of the Toronto Sun's Peter Worthington, no Canadian media bigwigs seem to mind. Indeed, the obvious fact that the bulk of these passports are flags of convenience only intensified the outrage at the sloth and incompetence of Ottawa in standing on guard for these paragons of Canada's post-nationalist national identity.And there are many "Americans" in Lebanon, as well, and many more "Americans" here, and elsewhere. I don't know what to do about them, other than making it harder for them to get citizenship in the first place, and making it easier for them to lose it, if we find that they lied when they promised allegiance to their new country — as many of them did.
(I sometimes wonder: When these "Canadians" and "Americans" take the oaths of citizenship, do they cross their fingers behind their backs, as little kids do to invalidate a promise?)
- 3:53 PM, 3 August 2006 [link]
The Medpundit is back.
Well, it's official. I'm a blogging addict. I can't give this up. Not quite two months away from it, and I'm forsaking my family to rejoin the blogging life.Which is good news for those who have come to appreciate her medical advice and her interesting commentaries.
(And I must say that her kids sound awfully smart.)
- 2:55 PM, 3 August 2006 [link]
Maybe He Isn't a typical Ohio Democrat.
A pizza shop in Avon Lake Towne Center was robbed Tuesday and police are still looking for the culprit.But I think we can be certain that he isn't a Republican.
(By way of the Wall Street Journal's "Best of the Web".)
- 2:26 PM, 3 August 2006 [link]
One Side Is Wrong. But Which? The conventional wisdom is that Israel does not want a ceasefire until Hezbollah is damaged, seriously. But, until this vague statement came out today, Hezbollah wasn't calling for a ceasefire, either.
Sheikh Hassan Nasrallah, the leader of Hezbollah, delivered a speech broadcast today in which he praised his "heroic" fighters but said that if Israel halted its bombardments in Lebanon, the group would halt its rocket attacks on Israeli cities.In fact, Nasrallah still did not call for a general ceasefire (assuming that brief article accurately describes his speech). He just said that if Israel stopped used its air force, Hezbollah would stop firing rockets. But he said nothing about the ground forces. (And he may be about to run out of rockets.)
So, which side is right in rejecting a ceasefire, at least for the moment? The history of Arab-Israeli wars would make me think that Israel was winning — and that Hezbollah did not yet know it. In general, the Arabs did not realize in earlier wars that they were losing until it was too late; they believed their own boastful press releases, rather than the evidence from the front. Nasrallah is said to be shrewd, but so were most Arab leaders in the earlier conflicts.
But the history may not be a perfect guide. If the vague news accounts I have been seeing are at all accurate, the Israelis have been surprised by some aspects of this conflict. Still, until I see better information, I would be inclined to think that what happened in previous wars is happening in this one. The Israelis are winning, but the leader of Hezbollah, Nasrallah, doesn't know it — yet.
- 1:55 PM, 3 August 2006 [link]
The Unlearned Lesson Of The Jayson Blair Scandal: Remember Jayson Blair, the New York Times reporter who invented stories, or details in stories, and who stole stories from other journalists? He embarrassed the New York Times greatly, and American journalists in general. But most journalists have yet to learn the central lesson of this scandal.
Here is the odd fact about the scandal (which I discussed at more length here). Jayson Blair was caught, not because of a false story, though he wrote many, but because of a true story, one he had plagiarized from the San Antonio Express-News.
After the scandal broke, some, including the publisher of the New York Times, Arthur Sulzberger, Jr., wondered why readers had not reported Blair's errors. But some readers had complained, and the New York Times had ignored them. But the Times did not ignore a complaint from other journalists; when the San Antonio paper complained, the New York Times finally paid attention.
What mattered, we can see, was who made the complaint, not the validity of the complaint. And the many readers who saw Blair's errors and did not complain were right in thinking that their complaints would be ignored. (And my own experience has led me to the same conclusion as those readers. When I have sent letters of correction to individual journalists, they sometimes ignore them, they often look for a nit to pick in my correction, and they almost never make a correction, no matter what evidence I supply.)
Here's the unlearned lesson of the Jayson Blair scandal. Newspapers should listen to their readers, especially when the readers complain. The reader who tells a journalist that he has made a mistake is, sometimes, doing that journalist a favor — though it may not feel that way. If journalists at the New York Times (and elsewhere) want readers to trust them, then they must do a better job of correcting errors — which will require listening to readers, as if they were members of the guild, not annoying outsiders.
Briefly, the New York Times tried to improve its listening. But they are now, if anything, behaving worse than they did before the Jayson Blair scandal. The $TimesSelect program cuts off some of the worst offenders at the Times from many critics. The letters editor, Thomas Feyer, often acts as a censor, protecting the journalists at the Times from criticisms of the kind they are only too willing to dish out. In my opinion Feyer has gotten worse over the years, more protective of those at at the Times who err so often, and so badly. The editorial page editor, Gail Collins, (and most of the columnists) live in such a closed world that they do not realize that many editorials and columns appear not just wrong to moderate and conservative critics, but absurd. (And in Frank Rich's case, usually poorly written.) The new public editor, Byron Calame, is a big step down from the first public editor, Daniel Okrent. For whatever reason, he is generally unwilling to tackle the larger questions that Okrent at least occasionally touched on. (Though to give Calame his due, he does sometimes publish letters that Feyer will not.)
The New York Times is not alone in having gotten worse at listening. When Israel and various bloggers raised questions about the Qana story and some of the pictures illustrating it, the AP reacted with nitpicking on timestamps, and a whitewash. And then gave the photographers an award.
Since our journalists have not learned that central lesson from the Jayson Blair scandal, that they should listen to their readers, I can make two predictions with great confidence: Trust in journalists will continue to decline, and so will readership.
Will journalists ever learn that lesson? I don't know. A few have. A few more may, but I have my doubts whether most will.
- 5:11 PM, 2 August 2006 [link]
New York's Continuing Decline In Crime: Crime has declined all across the United States, as I noted in this post, but it declined most dramatically in New York city, and has continued to decline there.
New York City has shattered criminology's central myth, but criminologists remain in denial. Policing, they still insist, can do little to lower crime. Economic inequality, demographic trends, changing drug-use patterns—these determine crime levels, they say, not police tactics. Nevertheless, since 1994, New York City has enjoyed a crime drop unmatched in the rest of the country—indeed, unparalleled in history—and only Gotham's revolutionary style of policing can explain it. Yet rather than flooding the city to study this paradigm-breaking phenomenon, most criminologists are busy looking the other way.Why the decline? Heather MacDonald is sure she knows the answer: New York city police are more effective at finding and convicting criminals — and therefore at preventing crime. The key, she believes, is a combination of a computer system that tracks crime and a police bureaucracy that holds precinct commanders responsible for crime in their precincts.
But to his immense credit (and that of Mayor Michael Bloomberg, who has backed him), [Police Commissioner Ray] Kelly has maintained the heart of New York's policing revolution—the now-famous accountability mechanism known as Compstat, a weekly crime-control meeting where top brass grill precinct bosses about every last detail of their command—even as he has refined the department's ability to analyze and respond to crime trends.It is only fair to mention that criminologists had good reasons to believe that policing did not much affect crime rates, at least within broad limits. Many studies supported that conclusion. For example, some cities had done randomized studies, assigning more police to some areas to see if that reduced crime, In general, these variations in patrolling seemed to make no difference in crime rates. What the New York experience shows is that you need smarter police work, not necessarily more police work, but some criminologists still find it difficult to accept that conclusion.
I think we can generalize from those results. New York put great effort into getting better current measures of crime, held precinct commanders responsible for results, and provided a way to share the methods of the more successful commanders. I think those same things would work in many other areas, including education. Measure what you are doing—frequently. Make individual managers responsible (and give them the authority to go with the responsibility). Share what works. That sounds simple, but you would have to search many bureaucracies to find all three.
(Want to know more about Compstat? Here's the official description, and here's the Wikipedia article.)
- 9:01 AM, 2 August 2006 [link]
The Interruptions are better than the programs.
In the middle of newscasts and programming from Hezbollah's Al-Manar station, Israeli technicians are hacking the signal and replacing it with a 90-second spot that begins with a gun site superimposed on a crude drawing of Hezbollah's leader, Sheik Hassan Nasrallah, looking at the ground.Those who fought against Hitler in World War II would have loved the chance to do the same thing.
- 6:40 AM, 2 August 2006 [link]
The New York Times is not above the law.
A federal appeals court on Tuesday ruled that federal prosecutors investigating a leak about a terrorism funding probe can see the phone records of two New York Times reporters.Though they may have to pay a lot more money to their lawyers before they understand that point.
(The AP story is sketchy about the incidents that prompted this legal fight, so I will fill in the details. As I recall, the reporters called the suspected terrorist organizations BEFORE the agents could make their raid, giving the terrorists, or suspected terrorists, a chance to destroy evidence.)
- 4:00 PM, 1 August 2006
Tom Maguire has much more here, including a link to the decision, and some sharp criticism of the Times' coverage of the decision. Deservedly sharp, I would add.
- 5:51 AM, 2 August 2006 [link]
Fortunately, Many Criminals are not that bright.
A bar waitress checking to see if a woman was legally old enough to drink was handed her own stolen driver's license, which was reported missing weeks earlier, police said.(Although I sometimes worry that we have come to that conclusion because we catch fewer of the smart criminals.)
- 3:40 PM, 1 August 2006 [link]
The HP Laptop I ordered a few weeks ago arrived this morning. Somewhat to my surprise, since FedEx had said it would arrive tomorrow. So I was not quite as sheveled as I would have liked to have been when the FedEx lady knocked on my door. (I don't know if sheveled is the opposite of disheveled, but it should be.) The laptop is now busily making the system recovery CDs, all 13(!) of them, so I have to tend to it every 15 minutes or so.
It is not a task I want to skip, because when I install Linux on it, things could go wrong. I have never lost Windows when I installed Linux, but there is no reason not to be careful. (It's something you should do even if you are not installing Linux, of course. In fact, systems should ship with recovery disks included.)
I have already run across a couple of the expected silly bits. The computer's serial number and the Windows ID are both on the bottom of the computer. The very brief manual has not even a hint at how long it takes to charge the battery, though I suppose I will be able to find that somewhere in the manuals stored on the hard disk.
Other first impressions: The screen is quite easy to read, even at the default resolution 1440x900) with the default fonts. The keyboard seems acceptable, at least for a laptop. The touch pad seems a little touchy, but I can turn that off if I like. The laptop is big and heavy, but that's the price you pay for the big screen, which I am beginning to need. The CD/DVD tray seems exceptionally flimsy, but that seems common on laptops. And, the laptop detected some wireless networks within range — which almost certainly belong to one of my neighbors. It would be wrong to use them without permission, and so I won't. Though I will check, just out of curiosity, to see what is available in this neighborhood. (I assume that the polite thing to do when you find such unsecured wireless networks is to warn the person who runs it, but maybe I am wrong.)
- 2:43 PM, 1 August 2006 [link]
Were The Deaths At Qana Staged? In this post, I said that I was suspicious about the deaths at Qana, that I suspected that they may have been arranged by Hezbollah for propaganda reasons.
I had no particular reasons for the suspicions, other than previous examples of staged events, and the fact that the deaths were awfully convenient for those who wish to destroy Israel and (eventually) the United States.
Other bloggers had similar suspicions and did the hard work digging up evidence that makes me even more suspicious. Many, including Israel's IDF, have calling attention to the strange time gap; the building collapsed eight hours after it was bombed. Richard North spotted some suspicious photgraphs, which he analyzed here and here. And Reuven Koret says the dead people shown appear to have been dead for days.
But Israelis steeled to scenes of carnage from Palestinian suicide bombings and Hezbollah rocket attack could not help but notice that these victims did not look like our victims. Their faces were ashen gray. While medical examination clearly is called for to arrive at a definitive dating and cause of their deaths, they do not appear to have died hours before. The bodies looked like they had been dead for days.Are some Lebanese morgues missing bodies? Maybe.
There may be an innocent explanation for the time lapse. Sometimes, as we know from all those demolitions shown on TV, buildings do not collapse immediately even after explosions that should have taken them down. (And Israel did strike targets near there close to the time of the collapse.) And there may be a semi-innocent explanation for those photographs; Hezbollah may be staging them to please the news organizations. There may be an innocent explanation for the appearance of the bodies. (Or Koret may just be wrong. I don't believe that he is a pathologist or coroner). But all these things do require explanations.
That Hezbollah is making it impossible to check their accusations should make us even more suspicious. It should even make "mainstream" journalists more suspicious, but probably won't.
- 9:03 AM, 1 August 2006 [link]
Party Time in Miami
Little was known of Fidel Castro's condition Tuesday after he underwent an operation and temporarily turned over the Cuban presidency to his brother Raul, ushering in a period of uncertainty at home and celebrations by his enemies abroad.Are they celebrating too soon? Maybe. Castro might recover, and even if he does not, his regime might endure after his death. Conditions in the Soviet Union improved after Stalin died in 1953, but the regime persisted (There's one very funny bit in the New York Times article.
Talk of Castro's mortality was taboo until June 23, 2001, when he fainted during a speech in the sun. Although Castro quickly recovered, many Cubans understood for the first time that their leader would eventually die.Many Cubans did not realize that Castro was mortal, until 2001? I find that hard to believe.
- 7:11 AM, 1 August 2006 [link]

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Our specialists do not think that you will be able to get rid of Secure-surf.com via Control Panel, so they recommend scanning the system with an antimalware scanner. Of course, you can remove this hijacker manually as well, but you should not forget that there are many versions of this threat and our instructions might not help you to take care of all of them.
How to remove Secure-surf.com
Internet Explorer
- Open your browser and tap Alt+T.
- Select Internet Options and click on the Advanced tab.
- Click Reset and check the box alongside Delete personal settings.
- Click the Reset button.
Mozilla Firefox
- Open your browser and tap Alt+H.
- Select Troubleshooting information and click Refresh Firefox.
- Click the Refresh Firefox button once again.
Google Chrome
- Launch your browser and tap Alt+F.
- Select Settings and then click Show advanced settings.
- Click Reset settings.
- Click Reset.
In non-techie terms:
Even if you remove Secure-surf.com browser hijacker, you cannot be guaranteed that your system is clean. Therefore, we highly recommend that you scan your computer with a trustworthy scanner. You should do that only if you have removed this hijacker manually. Instructions provided below will help you to download a trustworthy antimalware tool.


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Recently I read an article at Vulture Magazine that sung the virtues of the Perth music scene. It was a nice idea, but it was kind of a bust. The basic premise of the argument was that there's a few bands in Perth that you probably know the name of and also some dude who played in The Clash for a while. It wasn't really a great argument.
I decided to extrapolate on the idea, but before I do, here's some backstory.
I moved to Perth in 2011 after living in Sydney and Brisbane and after a couple of months I was fortunate enough to head to an acoustic show by Millencolin frontman Nikola Sarcevic. One of the support slots was by a band called The Decline, I'd vaguely heard of them, but hadn't really heard their music before, and even though it was just two of the members playing 'unplugged', it was kind of incredible. Their harmonies were impeccable, and their songs were the kind that made you want to sing along before you even knew the words. After their set, I went up to the band and bought a CD, we had a cool chat about the Perth scene and the guys took my number so they could tell me when more shows were on. That small kindness, a great band showing that they were welcoming and friendly dudes opened up a door to something far greater, and my world hasn't been the same since.
So straight up if you're not already a fan of The Decline then you should be. These guys are on the verge of releasing their third full-length album – Resistor. Their first two albums, I'm not Gonna Lie to You and Are you Gonna Eat That? are some of the best of you'll find in Australian melodic punk, they're thematically relevant and catchy as fuck, I can only assume their follow-up is going to be amazing. Right on their heels are the always impressive Bob Gordons who do their very best to party harder than any other band, and they also play great music, so they're worth checking out. I think one of the most underrated bands in the country is Castle Bravo, their debut release from 2012 is a masterpiece, one of the best punk records you'll hear, it's provocative but not preachy, melodic but heavy and wonderfully produced. Find a copy and buy it.
The Decline's videos are always pretty awesome too!
If ska is your thing, then there's a bunch of bands worth checking out. House Arrest and At The Space Jam are both great bands, the kind of modern ska that isn't afraid to explore its jazz and dancehall roots. Then there's Trip Hazard and the Rude Boys and Frigid Digits who both channel that '90s Southern California sound made famous by bands like Operation Ivy and Voodoo Glow Skulls. One of the most impressive bands in Perth is Them Sharks. They're a wonderful fusion of reggae, ska and punk that is kind of reminiscent of Sublime, but more than capable of standing on its own two feet. These guys have created an awesome bunch of songs that are as infectious as they are fun. They're one of the best live acts in the state, so do yourself a favor and check them out.
If you need something a little more fuel-injected then the inescapably awesome Chainsaw Hookers are the band for you. The bastard child of Motorhead, the Ramones and pure gasoline; these guys have firmly established themselves as the kings of rock n roll, not just in Perth, but of the whole country. I'm calling it, these guys, make AC/DC look like fucking the Wiggles. You should be listening to them. On that note, if the Hookers are the kings then Scalphunter are the usurper to the throne. They're the Stanos Baratheon to the Hookers Lannister, or whatever, Game Of Thrones is confusing, the point is Scalphunter are bad ass speed punks playing rock n roll that'll fuck you up worse than a hot sauce enema – listen to their music.
Perth has no shortage of brilliant singer-songwriters, many of whom also play in some of the killer bands I've mentioned. Ben Elliott from The Decline and House Arrest, the enormously talented Noah Skape of Total Waste and FAIM, Benny Mayhem who used to front Project Mayhem, Jason Ayres who tours thus country harder than anyone else, Dan Cribb who after killing it in The Decline for years now fronts Dan Cribb and The Isolated – who just launched their debut album and are fucking amazing. But that's only scratching the surface, there's so many to be discovered if you take the time to check them out.
There are just so many great bands here that you should check out -The Shakeys, Worst Possible Outcome, Agitated, Anavar, Illyria, Blindspot, Alex the kid, Voyager, Bounty Hunter, Emu Xperts, Miles Away, Cursed Earth – it goes on and on. I'll probably look back at this list and realise I've missed dozens of great bands, but it doesn't matter. You can find these bands on Facebook and Bandcamp, Dan Cribb and The Decline both put out records through Pee Records, so check them out.
Okay, so this is basically a glorified love letter to the Perth music scene, but fuck it, it's a pretty great scene.


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Installing PHP 5.3, Nginx And PHP-fpm On Ubuntu/Debian
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Since Apache is most of the time a memory hungy process, people started to look for different ways to host their website. Apache is clearly not the only webserver available. A few good examples are lighttpd and nginx. In this tutorial I will show you how to install it on your Ubuntu server. This tutorial also applies to Debian, though. There is only a very small difference.
Ready? Let's begin shall we.
Step 0 - Preliminary Notes
In order to complete this tutorial, I assume you have installed a base system of Debian or Ubuntu. How this can be done, can be read in different tutorials. This tutorial only focusses on getting nginx+php running without much hassle.
Step 1 - Nginx
Installing nginx is the first step we have to do. This can be easily done by downloading it from the repository.
sudo apt-get install nginx
The default vhost has to be changed in order to work properly.
sudo vim /etc/nginx/sites-available/default
A nice starting point for your config is:
server { listen 80; server_name localhost; access_log /var/log/nginx/localhost.access.log; ## Default location location / { root /var/www; index index.php; } ## Images and static content is treated different location ~* ^.+.(jpg|jpeg|gif|css|png|js|ico|xml)$ { access_log off; expires 30d; root /var/www; } ## Parse all .php file in the /var/www directory location ~ .php$ { try_files $uri =404; fastcgi_split_path_info ^(.+\.php)(.*)$; fastcgi_pass backend; fastcgi_index index.php; fastcgi_param SCRIPT_FILENAME /var/www$fastcgi_script_name; include fastcgi_params; fastcgi_param QUERY_STRING $query_string; fastcgi_param REQUEST_METHOD $request_method; fastcgi_param CONTENT_TYPE $content_type; fastcgi_param CONTENT_LENGTH $content_length; fastcgi_intercept_errors on; fastcgi_ignore_client_abort off; fastcgi_connect_timeout 60; fastcgi_send_timeout 180; fastcgi_read_timeout 180; fastcgi_buffer_size 128k; fastcgi_buffers 4 256k; fastcgi_busy_buffers_size 256k; fastcgi_temp_file_write_size 256k; } ## Disable viewing .htaccess & .htpassword location ~ /\.ht { deny all; } }
upstream backend {
server 127.0.0.1:9000;
Ok, we're done here. Now we'll install the needed files for PHP.
Step 2 - Installing PHP
Many sites rely on PHP for providing them dynamic content, whether this is a wiki, forum software, weblog or something entirely different.
If you are running Ubuntu, we first have to resolve two dependencies required for the dotdeb packages. If you are running the amd64 version, you should replace i386 with amd64.
For Debian you won't have to do this!
cd /tmp
wget http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/main/k/krb5/libkrb53_1.6.dfsg.4~beta1-5ubuntu2_i386.deb
wget http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/main/i/icu/libicu38_3.8-6ubuntu0.2_i386.deb
sudo dpkg -i *.deb
Again, this is only required if you're on Ubuntu.
The rest of the tutorial applies to both Ubuntu & Debian.
We'll have to add the dotdeb repository to the APT sources, so we can use their packaged PHP 5.3 and php-fpm:
sudo echo "deb http://php53.dotdeb.org stable all" >> /etc/apt/sources.list
Update apt:
sudo apt-get update
The resulting text should include dotdeb.
Now we'll install PHP (part 1):
sudo apt-get install php5-cli php5-common php5-suhosin
We have to install the cli before the rest, because this will cause problems later on.
sudo apt-get install php5-fpm php5-cgi
If you are planning to use a database or require specific modules (mcrypt, ldap, snmp etc) you can install them as well.
Ok, so now we have nginx and PHP.
One minor remark: If you are using "php short tags" (<?) you should enable them in your php.ini files (for both fpm and cli). If you do not change this, you will see your code in plain text!
Step 3 - Finalizing
Restart nginx in order to catch up with the config changes we made earlier.
sudo /etc/init.d/nginx restart
The restart should have gone without any problems.
After installing php5-fpm, it should have been started. If you did change your php.ini files, you have to restart php5-fpm.
sudo /etc/init.d/php5-fpm restart
All right. They should now both be running.
Step 4 - Testing
In order to test if the execution of PHP is working, create an index.php file in /var/www with the following content:
<?php phpinfo(); ?>
Visit your webserver and you should be able to see the generated phpinfo. If not, something went wrong.
Step 5 - Troubleshooting & Final notes
If you did not see the phpinfo, there might be something wrong. In order to track down what went wrong, you can check the nginx error log:
sudo tail /var/log/nginx/error.log
Remember, if you did change your php.ini you have to restart php5-fpm. Restarting nginx isn't' necessary.
In my example config I've enabled the fastcgi error interception. If a serious error occurs (for instance a "cannot redeclare class xyz"), nginx can catch this page and show a "nice" error page that something went wrong. This way, there is less information given out in case something is going seriously wrong.
If you do not like this, you can turn it off.
If php5-fpm is not running, your PHP files cannot be parsed and nginx will show the user an error page.
Well, I guess we're done and you are now able to serve PHP with your new nginx based webserver. Nginx is pretty nice and you can configure a lot. If you need rewrites, be aware that nginx does not work with .htaccess files. You will need to change your vhost settings in order for the rewrites to work.
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I wonder which Ubuntu version you based this on, as php5-fpm is not yet available with current Ubuntu. (9.10)
Good totorial anyhow, given you have the package available.
Within [/etc/nginx/sites-enabled/default]
I had to change:
fastcgi_pass backend;
fastcgi_pass 127.0.0.1:9000;
Not sure why, but it worked after that.
Yes, this is a minor part of the config I forgot to post. It has been modified in the tutorial, thanks!
The reason I use a "backend" section is to make it a bit more tidy and adding the possibility of extra PHP parsing servers.
this tutorial is very helpful, but my problem is, the server is not accepting HTTP GET variables more than 512 char long. i searched a lot but not able to find solution.
please help me
Can use in debian lenny?
I can't use php on nginx.
debian lenny with dotdeb.org php53 repository.
You can use either Ubuntu or Debian, as long as you're able to use the DotDeb repository.
Hopefully php-fpm will become a package in the main repositories, in that case you could use those. Until then, dotdeb will do.
offtopic: Its nice to see people using something different from apache... i used to use it... i remember the first thing i did after installing it.. was removing *every* unnecesary module (I dont know why, its very common to have many shit that you probably will never use... and in fact, just gives security holes to any newcomer...) *greets*
i get this
pizza:/etc/nginx/sites-available# /etc/init.d/nginx restart
Restarting nginx: 2010/04/27 18:40:56 [emerg] 2820#0: unknown directive "fastcgi_split_path_info" in /etc/nginx/sites-enabled/default:21
im using exactly the same configuration file (default) as you.
Me too. I have same problem. How to fix it?
fastcgi_split_path_info was introduced around nginx version 0.7.31. Are you using an older version? You may need to comment that out or upgrade nginx if you need that functionality.
Hi I followed the tutorial using Ubuntu 10.04. First issue I encountered is that Lucid's php5-common package installs an Ubuntu specific version and php-fmp depends on other version, I solved it using dpkg to install php5-fmp ignoring dependencies. Now the problem is when i point the browser to index.php i get this message: No input file specified. Thanks for this tutorial Macario
Regarding Lucid: to give precedence to the php5 dotdeb packages, the following worked for me...
sudo apt-get install php5-common=5.3.2-0.dotdeb.2 php5-cli=5.3.2-0.dotdeb.2 php5-suhosin=5.3.2-0.dotdeb.2
Obviously, check the versions first: http://php53.dotdeb.org/dists/stable/php5/binary-i386/
To those working with Ubuntu 10.04 (Lucid Lynx), you must ignore the deb item in the sources.list in the above tutorial, and skip all the steps relating to manually installing packages with dpkg. I tried this earlier and got it working, but I had to dkpg --ignore-depends , which resulted in a stubbornly broken apt-get with unmet dependencies. Here is the fix:
- deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/brianmercer/php/ubuntu lucid main
- deb-src http://ppa.launchpad.net/brianmercer/php/ubuntu lucid main
I have automated nginx + php5 + php5-fpm setup on ubuntu 10.4 lucid with my scripted install. It is available freely under GNU GPL 3.0 at http://www.initcron.org/how-tos/autoinstall-nginx-web-server-with-php-on-ubuntu-10-4-lucid
This takes care of most of the steps above.
I had some problems with links and redirects (in phpbb) when I used a setup similar to what you're describing. I had more success by using the root parameter instead of concatenating the path into SCRIPT_FILENAME. The config that works the best for me is something like:
location ~* \.php{ root /var/www-bfg; fastcgi_pass 127.0.0.1:9000; #other parameters here }
I agree. I've been looking at various nginx configurations and any time I see the "big ol' list of fastcgi_... options" or someone using 'if (-e ...)' instead of 'try_files', I run away. Far, far away. I'm quite convinced that there isn't a single person publishing tutorials like this on nginx that actually knows how to create a functional configuration file. The problem seems to stem from Igor's (the author of nginx) inability to follow his own rules for the default, shipping configuration combined with the lack of centralized documentation that is easy to follow. There is a Wiki that is semi-useful but even the examples within the Wiki break the rules more often than not.
When I say "break the rules", I mean violations of the official "if is evil" and "common pitfalls" documentation in the nginx Wiki.
From what I've gathered, nginx is faster for two reasons:
- The default out-of-the-box installation isn't laden down with unnecessary modules. Supposedly, Apache compiled for mpm-worker mode (default is mpm-prefork) can be configured to be just as fast as nginx when the unnecessary modules are stripped out.
- nginx doesn't touch the filesystem unless it is told to. It is first a lightweight proxy server and second a web server while Apache is the reverse. nginx was designed to be, in essence, a load balancer. The approach is interesting because not touching the file system has the advantage of not having the physical files on the same box as the server. 'try_files', in this context, appears to have been introduced because people are using nginx as a web server. But, more importantly though, this security vulnerability is in most nginx + PHP configurations found throughout the Internet. When you think about it, there is no good way to fix it either except on a case-by-case basis using extra checks in each and every virtual host that allows PHP scripts to run or to run nginx as a lightweight proxy server that passes requests onto Apache - which has its own difficulties (e.g. dealing with remote IP addresses in PHP).
The lack of .htaccess support means that making changes requires modifying the configuration file, which means nginx probably won't work well in a hosting environment where people are used to having .htaccess available at the subdirectory level.
And the unfixable PHP security vulnerability is a head-spinner.
In essence, nginx is a special-purpose server that is only practical when there are extremely large loads to be handled for a single domain combined with a really intelligent system administrator.
Totally agree but...
"In essence, nginx is a special-purpose server that is only practical when there are extremely large loads to be handled for a single domain combined with a really intelligent system administrator."
Not even close. Nginx is hugely useful for quick reverse proxies even on tiny servers with several low volume sites.
Why are you overwriting fastcgi_param variables that have been included already?
When I see somebody doing things like this, I get the idea that the guy not really wrote the config line by line for himself - maybe he is not even knwoing exactly what he is doing! And all you rabbits are just blindly running into his direction?
Love it - brilliant tutorial, got me online within minutes.
Considering the never-ending messing around I've had to do with nginx + php in the past, this is pure quality.
Running latest Debian, latest PHP.
Since Ubuntu 11.04 is bundled with PHP 5.3, installation is as simple as:
sudo apt-get install php5-fpm php5-cli php5-common
First of all, my thanks for this great website of yours. It has saved me days!
Please update your article.
I was having this error message
Reading package lists... Done
W: GPG error: http://php53.dotdeb.org stable Release: The following signatures couldn't be verified because the public key is not available: NO_PUBKEY E9C74FEEA2098A6E
sudo apt-get update
gpg --keyserver keys.gnupg.net --recv-key 89DF5277
gpg -a --export 89DF5277 | sudo apt-key add -
You can replace the dependencies and sources.list editing with:
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:nginx/php5
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Plenty of Camping Sites at Yellowstone
July 19, 2011 by Justin Leighty - () 1 Comment
Last-minute travelers to Yellowstone National Park can thank the heavy early-spring snowfall for a wide choice of campsites now. The lingering snow in Yellowstone National Park and the surrounding area has resulted in a slow start to the camping season, higher-than-normal cancellations and plenty of availability, the Wyoming Business Reports reported.
Xanterra Parks & Resorts, operator of five Yellowstone campgrounds offering advance reservations, reports drops in both occupancy and reservations.
"The good news is recent warm temperatures and generally drier weather patterns have resulted in snow-free and dry campgrounds while contributing to green meadows, a rush of wildflowers and great wildlife viewing opportunities," said Rick Hoeninghausen, director of sales and marketing for Xanterra.
"The lingering snow kept campers away and made many others reluctant to make reservations. The result is better availability – especially in August and September – for those people just now planning a camping vacation," Hoeninghausen said.
Of the 11 campgrounds in Yellowstone, five of them – comprised of more than 1,400 individual sites – can be reserved online at www.YellowstoneNationalParkLodges.com or by calling toll-free (866) GEYSERLAND (866) 439-7375) or (307) 344-7311.
Xanterra-operated campgrounds include Bridge Bay Campground, Canyon Campground, Grant Campground, Madison Campground and Fishing Bridge RV Park. Except for Madison Campground, these facilities are located a convenient distance from stores, sightseeing tours and camper services such as laundry and showers.
Fishing Bridge RV Park is designed for hard-sided units only with a maximum length of 40 feet. Rates at Fishing Bridge RV Park are $28 per night for sites without electric hook-ups and $38 per night for sites with electric hook-ups. All Fishing Bridge RV sites include water and sewer hookups. Rates are $20 per night for the other campgrounds.
National Park Service regulations require camping equipment to fit in designated sites. When making a reservation, online visitors must book a site that will accommodate their camping equipment.
Non-tent campers must book a site that will accommodate the total combined length of their vehicle and camping equipment. Tent campers must be prepared to give the size of their tent in feet and inches or the size of their RV and any tow or towed vehicle separately.
Xanterra also operates lodges, restaurants, gift shops and other concessions in the park.


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Adult Literacy Organiser East Cavan
Ballyjamesduff Adult and Community Education Centre
Virginia Road
Ballyjamesduff Co Cavan
Telephone: 049 8553528
Who are we?
Cavan Adult Learning Centre provides part-time Further Education programmes including literacy for adults wishing to return to education.
What is Literacy?
Literacy involves listening, speaking, reading, writing, numeracy and using everyday technology to communicate and handle information. It includes more than the technical skills of communication (reading, writing and spelling): it also has personal, social and economic dimensions. Literacy increases the opportunity for individuals and communities to reflect on their situation explore new possibilities and initiate change.
The service is free and confidential and may be offered on a one to one basis or in small groups depending on individual needs. Classes are available countywide.
Other programmes available are QQI Level 1, 2, 3 and 4 single modules and full certificates, Junior Certificate and Leaving Certificate.
How can you become a volunteer tutor?
We are always looking for committed and mature individuals who would be interested in volunteering for a number of hours each week to teach someone basic literacy skills on a one-to-one basis. You don't need to come from the teaching world, since we will provide you with specialised training. Those with patience, empathy, good listening skills and the ability to respect the confidentiality of the service will be most welcome and could make a difference to the life of someone with a literacy difficulty. Prospective volunteers are advised that in addition to completing the application form, they will be required to attend and informal face to face interview, successfully complete the training and garda vetting prior to being offered a placement. Contact Siobhan on 049 4361881 or Regina on (049) 8553528 for more details on when our next training session begins and how the volunteer tutor service works. Application forms can also be obtained by clicking below:
What we offer
Cavan Adult Learning Centre provides a range of part-time programmes including literacy, QQI Awards at Level 1, Level 2, Level 3 and Level 4, Junior Certificate and Leaving Certificate.
Other programmes include Family Learning, Workplace Key-skills, ECDL, Driver Theory Support, ESOL (English as a Second or Other Language).
Who is this service for?
- Interested in returning to learning
- Seeking a second chance at learning
- Early school leavers
- Looking for a career change
- Considering further education/training
- Seeking qualifications/skills to gain employment
- Parents/carers supporting their children's learning
- Seeking to improve their English language skills
About Our Programmes
Literacy programmes
Adult Literacy Programmes provide help on a private and confidential basis for those experiencing difficulty with reading, writing, spelling, numeracy, form-filling and letter writing. Tuition is offered on a one-to-one or small group basis and the service is free and available countywide. If you feel you could benefit from some extra help in this area or know someone who could use some support, please contact the Literacy Organiser on (049) 436 1881.
Part-time FETAC Certified Programmes
- Our QQI Level 1 Programme "Introduction to Communications" comprises of a number of components, often in basic literacy and numeracy, and it leads to a recognised award on the national framework.
- Our QQI Level 2 Programme "Essential Communications and Other Life Skills" comprises of a number of components, advancing your literacy and numeracy skills, and it leads to a major award at QQI Level 2 - Certificate in General Learning.
- Our QQI Level 3 Certificate Programme enables learners to gain recognition for specific personal skills, practical skills and knowledge, and it can lead to a Level 3 Certificate in General Learning.
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- The Junior Certificate enables learners complete a programme of study leading to an award in the State Examinations. Full Certificate and single subjects are available.
- The Leaving Certificate enables learners complete a programme of study leading to an award in the State Examinations. Single subjects are available.
- English as a Second or Other Language (ESOL): ESOL classes are specifically for people whose first language is not English e.g. migrant workers, asylum seekers and refugees. Accreditation is on offer at QQI Level 3 and Level 4.
- Skills for Work (SFW): Skills for Work programmes enable learners in the workplace to complete a programme of study leading to a QQI Level 3 Award.
Learning for Life
The adult learning centre provides opportunities for adults to develop a range of skills in areas such as reading, writing, spelling, numeracy, form filling, basic computers and writing letters. Tuition is free and can be offered on a one to one basis or small groups depending on individual needs and is available countywide. All enquiries are treated confidentially.
Courses are designed to meet the student's needs and may include tasks such as:
- Reading books, newspapers and magazines
- Helping children with homework
- Making bank lodgements, writing cheques
- Writing notes to school
- Writing letters
- Understanding and filling out forms
- Following instructions
- Reading and writing in the workplace
- Basic computers
For more information contact Regina Clarke at 049 4361881
Workplace Learning/Skills for Work
The key skills of reading, writing, maths and basic computers are vital in the workplace. Cavan Adult Education Services can provide training to those currently employed who wish to develop their basic skills.
Family Learning
Here is a range of the Family Learning Programmes that we offer:
- Learning Skills
- Home Study Skills
- Maths Support for Parents
- Irish Support for Parents
- English as a Second or Other Language (ESOL) for Parents
- Dads and Lads courses
- Mother and Daughter courses
- Introduction to Basic IT for Parents
We have links with the following agencies:
- All Home School Liaison (HSL) Officers in County Cavan
- County Cavan National Parents Association
- Primary/Secondary Schools in the County
- Rapid Family Support Outreach Workers
- County Cavan Childcare Committee
- Johnson Library Cavan
Here's how a parent can join a class:
- Talk to the HSL officer attached to your primary school (if there is one)
- Contact a member of your parents association
- Phone/Email the Adult Learning Centre at email@example.com or 0494361881 to arrange a meeting
Here's how a school can set up a class:
Contact Cavan Adult Learning Centre at firstname.lastname@example.com or 0494361881 to arrange a meeting with one of the Adult Literacy OrganisersThe HSL officer can liaise with the centre to plan suitable courses to meet the parents needs
ITABE (Intensive Tuition in Adult Basic Education)
What is ITABE?
ITABE stands for Intensive Tuition in Adult Basic Education. It is an intensive literacy programme for adults.
Who is it suitable for?
The programme is suitable for students who want to develop their reading, writing and numeracy skills to enable them to fulfil both personal and work related goals and takes place in group settings of 6 – 8 people.
It is open to people who are 18 years of age or older and who are not attending full-time second level education. Participants will be given the opportunity to gain FETAC accreditation at levels 1, 2, or 3 if they so choose.
All participants will have their literacy / numeracy skills assessed at the beginning and end of the course.
How many hours of tuition per week are there?
These programmes take place over 14 weeks with 6 hours of tuition per week. Tuition is normally delivered in 2 sessions of 3 hours per week and is delivered daytime or evenings.
What kinds of things are covered in the programme?
The majority of the tuition hours are dedicated to literacy /numeracy provision, but the programme also includes an introduction to IT skills which will focus on computers as a tool to assist the learner in improving their general learning skills.
Adult students taking part in ITABE programmes are entitled to access the Adult Education Guidance Initiative within the VEC and will also benefit from the existing supports provided by Cavan Adult Education Services.
2014 Events
•Adult Learner Festival takes place from 24th February - 1st March 2014
The Adult Learners' Festival is a nationwide celebration of adult learning coordinated by AONTAS – The Voice of Adult Learning. The Festival is about:
• Celebrating adult learning and the achievements of adult learners
• Showcasing the work of adult education providers
• Promoting the work of AONTAS and the adult education sector
• Ensuring that adult education is placed firmly on the political agenda
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She struck me as an ambassador of the strength that fairytale heroines are made of. We shook hands and sat across each other. Two years, she had been in Canada. At OCISO, just a few weeks, volunteering to help bring Syrian refugees.
She asked all the questions. "What is the goal of your project here?" "Why do you do it?" "Why did you become a storyteller?" I told her. She nodded. "We need to find meaning in our lives," she said. "I like to explore art – no – to find in art things about ourselves, to explore. So important. Especially now, with what's going on here, and in the world."
She told me other things she liked. To walk. Nature. Beauty. She walks a lot, she says. So much to see. So much beauty. "I used to be very active." She shakes her head. "Now, I want to contribute. I want life to be a commitment. You understand, yes?" I nod. "So much to learn!" She's been learning French. Now she wants to learn Spanish. And Persian. And how language changed my relationship to this land. I tell her. She nods. She knows of what I speak.
We travel the same road. We cannot go home, even if we go home. The past is a different country: that place we parted from where we can no longer arrive at. "Why did you come?" she asks. I tell her a love story. I ask what brought her to Canada. "I wanted a better life. As a human being, as a woman." I nod. Fairytale courage.
I walk her out, and as I hurry back to the storyteller-in-residence room, my nose quivers in the air. I stop. I track a scent down to the reception desk. "Something smells good here," I say. "Something I know!" I lock eyes with the black, wide-hipped woman who makes pumpkins roll in Caribbean folktales. She sits behind OCISO's reception desk, on Thursdays. I sniff the air around her. "It is you!"
People call her Viki. She holds out her hand. I press it to my nose and breathe in deeply. "It's crema Hinds!" I shout. "¡Crema Hinds! ¡Crema Hinds!" En la mesita de luz, en el botiquín del baño, en el bolso playero, en los avisos de televisión, rosa la crema, rosa la tapita de plástico, rosa claro y rosa oscuro los tres pétalos de la etiqueta, rosa la nariz pelada por el sol por eso fría y todo, arde, arde hasta que absorbe, y entonces todo es rosa y crema Hinds: mi mamá, mi madrina, Mar del Plata, the sand, the sea, the sun-burned skin from all those summers at the beach, from all those women who raised me, forever young in their scent, forever sauntering out of pink bathrooms, skins glowing, heads Hollywoodly wrapped in towels, filled with life to the brim, and me pulsing with that eight-year-old radiant longing, wishing if only, if only and forever all we could breathe was this happy crema Hinds.
But Viki shows me the bottle. It isn't Hinds cream. It is some white plastic tube with no label and a pumping nozzle sticking out of it. She rolls her swivel chair towards me: "I know exactly what you mean! For me, it is Fidji. That perfume! My childhood. So much of my life! I search for it, but can't find it. The way it was, they don't make it anymore!" And I know exactly what she means. We cannot go home, even if we go home. The past is a different country: that place we parted from where we can no longer arrive at. And what are we to do? Walk! Search! Story! For the scent of meaning. For the scent of beauty. For every foreign scent where we belong, what are we to do but run to burrow our nose in the kind wrist of a black woman who knows, and breathe, breathe, breathe.


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NY Through the Lens: Oxidation – Domino Sugar Factory
Photo and words by Vivienne Gucwa
There is something remarkably touching about urban decay.
It is as if sorrow and longing can be traced in the peeling layers and crumbling brick. In warm sunlight, the rich colors created by iron oxidation produce the most beautiful textures on old pipes and metal framework. The memory of those who graced the intricate insides of these structures is delicately preserved by the faded remnants that remain.
During the period following the Civil War, New York was the top provider of refined sugar to the United States, and for a period of time the Domino Sugar factory in Williamsburg, Brooklyn was the largest sugar refinery in the world. At one time, the factory employed over 4,000 workers and processed 3 million pounds of sugar a day.
After nearly 150 years of service, the factory shut down in 2004 due to a decline in demand. There is a new plan for this space to make it a residential space which is being actively protested by groups like the Waterfront Preservation Alliance and the Landmarks Conservancy who believe that huge development in this space would destroy the history and architectural legacy of the sugar factory. I am inclined to agree with their assessment.
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June was a big month for handheld gaming. At E3, Nintendo unveiled its visionary 3DS – the successor to the DS that uses a cool glasses-free 3D display. Sony also used E3 to showcase several games that should stave off PSP detractors claiming the handheld has entered its twilight phase. Sony and Nintendo seem ready to battle each other, but what about the handheld gaming rig that nobody expected to explode: the iPhone? June was not only the debut of the 3DS, but also the launch of the iPhone 4, an improvement over the original iPhone in every way from the HD-esque Retina display to the inclusion of a gyroscope for precision motion controls.
Unless Sony surprises everybody and announces a new PSP soon, one of these three machines is going to define the next wave of handheld gaming. Greg Miller, Craig Harris, and Levi Buchanan each square off for their rigs of choice in this debate about the future of handheld gaming.
iPhone 4Levi Buchanan, Editor: To me, the iPhone 4 is the first time an iPhone has no longer felt like an accidental gaming rig. Not only does it feel much better in your hands than the original curved iPhone design, but the inclusion of the gyroscope for precision controls is obviously aimed at getting better games on the machine. Once you take a lap in Real Racing with the gyro-enhanced controls, it's hard to go back to the original iPhone. Plus, the Retina display blows both the PSP and DS (and 3DS) off the map. That is the best HD-like display in any handheld. I thought the top screen in the 3DS was nice at E3, but when you check out a Retina-enhanced iPhone game, you'll be absolutely floored.
Between these new features - gyro and Retina display - and the power of the App Store for both fostering creative games and getting them to the gamer at amazing prices, I truly see the iPhone 4 as the future of handheld gaming.
Greg Miller, Executive Editor: Well, as I'm not one of the three richest kings, I haven't had the chance to hold and hug on the iPhone 4, but Levi's words touch on what's kept me away from gaming on my iPhone in general - since I bought my iPhone 3G, it's felt like an "accidental gaming rig." The games have been shallow and shoved on the device. Put away the pitchforks and torches, Apple lovers. I know that there are dozens of deep games you could point to, but for me, they've never hit the mark.
That's why - brace yourself for it - I love my PSP. It seems there's this dedicated following built around the PSP, and then there's the majority of the world, the people who close their eyes and say that there are no games on the device. Of course, they're wrong - my 65-hour saves for Patapon 2 and Metal Gear Solid: Peace Walker prove my point - but if you aren't actively trying to play the PSP in your free time, I can understand why people wouldn't know that.
"The future of handheld gaming" is a broad term, but the iPhone platform probably has the brightest future. Even if a majority of the stuff people put out is terrible, gems are going to slip through and only cost a few bucks. That's huge, and that's going to draw in the casual crowds.
Craig Harris, Executive Editor: The Nintendo DS, and to a similar extent the PlayStation Portable, were designed first and foremost as gaming devices. However, it's Nintendo that truly "gets it" in the world of portable game systems - the company's been doing it since 1989. It's all about unique experiences for an inexpensive price, damn the technology. And as impressed as I am with some of the Sony offerings - and how versatile the system is - it's clear to me that Sony still doesn't understand the handheld market nearly as well as Nintendo does.
However, the "experiences on the cheap" strategy is something that Apple's embracing, and it's giving Nintendo a run for its money. Developers have taken to the iDevices with a passion, creating free and cheap-as-free games that are tough to resist, like candy at the checkstand of a Target.
Just like Levi and Greg have said, the iPhone was never really meant as a gaming platform: it just sort of fell into that position the second the App Store opened. I appreciate the device to play certain games, but at far, far shorter spurts than I would any other device: a touch screen-exclusive device (well, okay, tilt sensitive too) can only get you so far, and I need the tactile feedback of buttons. I never see myself playing iPhone for any more than five minutes at a time, but to be honest it seems Apple is happy with that number.
The Nintendo DS's time has come. Ancient tech aside, third-party developers have abandoned the platform for the Apple pastures, mostly-to-entirely because of development costs and the very little profit made on the system.
The 3DS is Nintendo's way of shifting the winds back to its shores: the company needs a platform that brings its handheld to current standards - strong processing power and improved online experiences - while also introducing an element that no other platform can. The 3D may sound gimmicky, but when you actually see it it's hard not to be stunned in that first impression. Developers can now design games with depth, something that had to be faked before.


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Even though it looks like we spilled all of the info about the Nokia Lumia 1020, aka the 41MP PureView Monster, truth be told we still have a lot of questions to answer. Confirming price, regional availability, functionality of that camera, when can you get your mitts on one and some HQ photos and videos of the new Nokia jewel.
So on Thursday, tune in to our Live Blog as we'll be front and center in New York City as Nokia unveils their latest device and any news on their HERE services.
It all starts at 11AM ET and goes for one hour. Need your local time? Just hit this link to find out or note our countdown clock below! We hope to have the video embedded for your viewing pleasure and there will be a chat room on the whole time, so share your thoughts!
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GoingClear Interactive was responsible for the design and development of the new Architectural Fireplaces website. Our main focus for this project was to present a modern and welcoming design that's also easy to read and take in. Fortunately for us the client provided us some stunning photography to show off for them! We also place a high priority on displaying their vendor brands and using clean typography in combination with supporting icons to help user navigate the site with minimal effort. The new Architectural Fireplaces website was built using WordPress as the CMS (Content Management System) along with a fully mobile and tablet friendly design leveraging Twitter Bootstrap for the responsive framework so visitors will be sure to have a great experience on all of their devices.


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Whenever there is talk of change in any organization, much of the resistance that we face is the reality that there is not enough time. Change not only requires time to train, practice, and evaluate, but change in and of itself requires sufficient time. One of the greatest strengths of the Fuller Model is that it provides exactly that: time.
In order to fulfill our vision, the most pressing issue was rethinking how we use our time if we wanted to see truly substantive change. Time to learn, time to process, time to collaborate, time to plan and reflect, and time to pursue passions. We rethought the school day and broke it into two blocks; the Academy-Based Learning block is structured, standards-based, engaged, collaborative learning; the Student-Directed Learning block is flexible, evolving, inquiry- and learning-driven, student-controlled time. These blocks can be arranged according to student learning strengths and in conjunction with mentors.
Academy-Based Learning Block: Within Academy-Based Learning, students engage in three-week learning experiences focused on one project instead of eight different content areas over one- or two-day schedules. The last of those weeks is completely dedicated to either extension or remediation based on the needs of individual students—time to continue and support learning. During the three-week learning experiences, students will have time in the following 5 areas:
- Time to Plan & Reflect: At the beginning of the academy block, students will have time to plan out their day. They will be given guidance on best practices for planning as they set individual goals as well as collaborative goals in a briefing/morning meeting/advisory atmosphere. At the end of the academy block, students will have a wrap-up meeting where they can reflect on the day's activities: addressing challenges, successes, new ideas, directions, or focuses for the coming days.
- Time to learn: "Tell me and I will forget, show me and I may remember, involve me and I will understand." Using research based best practices, students will engage in various project, passion, & problem based learning experiences (PBL). They will interact with real world problems and pursue projects of varying interests. Rather than being taught in isolated subjects, students will explore and actively participate in relevant real world and academic content through projects. For he who does the work does the learning.
- Time to Process: Being able to focus on just one project for 3 weeks, the students don't have to worry about their test next period. They can concentrate their efforts on processing and solidifying their learning, thus allowing them to develop and execute their ideas more effectively.
- Time to Collaborate: Students and teachers will regularly participate in Large Group Meetings (LGM); briefings, morning meetings, or advisories; and wrap-up meetings. In addition to formal meetings or times set aside for collaboration on a daily basis, students will also consistently work with other students and teachers throughout the day.
- Time to Remediate, extend, and/or support: The third week of the project experience will provide time to address and differentiate for individual student needs.
Student Directed Learning Block: In addition to a unique vision and utilization of time, we also have a singular method for validating student individuality and interests through our student-directed block. There are no "after-school" programs in our design. We want to send the message to our students that what they are interested in matters, and if our goal is to make the world work, that means anything they learn will help in that pursuit. In other words, there aren't "school" topics and "other" topics; it is all about learning. The scheduling for how students will spend their time during this block is up to them: they create the schedule, set goals with their mentor/advisor, and then are responsible for the plan that they make.
This schedule also sets aside time for optional multi-day immersion activities (during the three-week break) that gives students the chance to get involved in activities and experiences that introduce possible career options, deepen learning, and provide access to new and emerging ideas and technologies. In other words, time to address and interact with our current realities.
Start Time: Research shows that students may actually perform better if given the opportunity to start school later than the typical high school day. Then again, there are some students for whom early hours are productive. Having a flexible schedule would allow students to plan their day according to what works best for them. This flexibility also provides opportunities for students who may be involved in sports to receive the complete learning experiences and not miss out. This can also benefit teachers as well–some teachers would be able to start early and be done early; others could start later and end later.
Calendar: While the model itself is flexible, we believe that the most benefit to learning for our students happens in an annual schedule and realized that three, three-week blocks, followed by a three-week break (a 45-15 model) allows for deeper learning and flexibility for families.
The student directed block allows for teachers to collaborate, innovate, and to review and refine their teaching practices on a daily basis, while also having time to assist students in their individual pursuits. This daily allotment of time for teachers will drastically increase the effectiveness of their instruction as they can address issues from the daily wrap up and plan, collaborate, innovate, and refine their ideas to better address their instruction. In addition, they will have the option to sponsor/direct activities during student-directed learning that they enjoy and are passionate about. Essentially, we're making time for innovation, collaboration, research, and creating, for students and teachers–for the things that matter! Our plan not only utilizes time more efficiently, but actually dedicates time for those things that matter most: time for students, time for teachers, and time for families.
Ideally, academies would have collaborative learning spaces, open areas, and flexible interior modules, but one of the most important aspects to this model is that it can be implemented in any school regardless of the current set-up. Existing schools must be more flexible and adaptable to the needs of the students and teachers to determine the best setup for the school, but following these guidelines the schools can make the most of this model.
Classrooms: We've rethought the typical classroom to be more effective in facilitating learning. Teachers and students will use the spaces based on and directed by various purposes in the learning process. Some classrooms may be considered collaboration rooms, others research areas, brainstorming & ideation spaces, workshops, quiet study rooms, creating and developing rooms, and other academy specific needs for students and teachers.
Classrooms and departments will also be grouped by academy to better facilitate collaboration. In other words, instead of having a science wing or department with classrooms all grouped together, the Robotics academy, for example, of a school will have various content area teachers (English, math, science, engineering, art, design, etc.) that will specialize in the academy content and will all be grouped together. The math classroom may be right next to the science, which is next to the art, next to the English and so on. At the beginning of a three week project block, multiple classrooms may be set up to facilitate research and exploration, but as the students and teachers advance in their needs the classroom may change in their purpose and set up. Tables, desks, and chairs may be moved out to provide space for working, or the furniture may be grouped for collaboration.
Teacher & Student Flexibility: Students and teachers will be more fluid in their use of space: if a student or group of students needs to stay in the brainstorming/research center for a longer period of time–even the entire day–they may choose to do so. They will not be constrained by bells or periods. Students and teachers will use rooms for the purpose of the space rather than the topic or content area of classrooms or section of the school. For example, an English teacher might specialize in various aspects of the project process (brainstorming, research, analyzing data, thinking strategies, etc.), and if a student needs help with one of those skills or concepts he or she can remain with the teacher in the corresponding room until those needs are met. Another student may need more instruction from a math teacher on how to measure, apply, and present data that has been collected. Thus, students and teachers will more effectively use their space with purpose.
Media Center/Libraries: These facilities will be used more exclusively as collaborative environments as well as additional research and brainstorming centers and maker spaces.
Walls: Rather than fill walls with posters and rules, wall space will be used with a more defined purpose. For example, "Any non-porous surface can be a whiteboard," says George Kembel, the executive director of the Stanford d.school. "Creativity follows context," says Kembel. The main idea, he says, is not to segregate creativity from other activities. So, walls in classrooms will be used to enable and assist brainstorming, ideation, creating, and organizing. As many schools don't often have much space, students will be guided in the effective use of walls, whiteboards, glassboards, etc. and encouraged to make use of the space around them–frequently in unconventional ways.
Halls: Halls will act as an extension of the classroom containing white boards, sitting areas, collaborative spaces, etc.
Beyond the School: Local businesses and community partners will play a large role in the development and progress of the academies. As such, students will be encouraged to participate in opportunities to advance their learning with local industry leaders: similar to internships or a Regional Occupational Programs (ROP).
We understand that not all schools have the resources to have the most up-to-date technology. The model does not mandate any specific level of technology; once again, the point is to work within what the schools have and can reasonably acquire. Any technology plans should be directly tied to the needs of the academies, and follow a technology vision and plan. We encourage schools to adopt a vision and plan that is forward-thinking but also wise. Technology should not be used simply to replace what we currently have. Instead, we see the SAMR model of technology as the basis for seeing and utilizing technology for what it can be.


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Worship is an integral part of Christians' lives. In fact, everything we do should be
an act of worship before God. While we can worship in private, every Christian is to see himself
or herself as part of the corporate body of Christ. We, as God's people, are called to
worship Him as one body and in one Spirit, through praising Him with hymns and prayers,
listening to the Word, tithing and fellowshipping with Him and one another.
We have both Chinese and English worship services on Sunday. There is also Kid's Church
for children from K-6! Please come and join us in one of the following services:
Sunday 9:45 AM (with Cantonese interpretation)
Sunday 11:30 AM
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