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Friday, December 16, 2011
My Christmas Traditions
It's a ho-ho-hoedown on the range in the town of Happy! How do you celebrate Christmas and the season's holidays with your family and friends?
Here in Happy, we have lots of traditions. Traditions are things you do each year, like going to Grandma's for Christmas dinner or dropping off a toy for a needy kiddo. I'll tell you some of my traditions:
On Christmas Eve we build a big bonfire in the clearing behind the barn and set bales of hay for folks to sit on. Just about the whole town turns out: Banker Bill, Dime Store Sam, Hi-Five Handy, Little Digit, Buddy, Zipp Handy, everyone! And of course L'il Pinky brings hot chocolate and a basked load of her famous cookies and cupcakes. I play my guitar and we all sing Christmas carols and take turns telling stories about our favorite Christmas memories.
After a while the little ones start to doze off and their parents carry 'em home and put 'em to bed to await the arrival of Santa Claus.
We spend Christmas morning with our families, opening presents before heading over to the Long Horn Diner where I whip up a Christmas dinner for anyone who wants to join us.
What are your holiday traditions? Whatever they are, I hope they're filled with love and laughter and the magic of the season!
Virtual Christmas Caroling! You might not be able to gather your friends and family to go out caroling in your neighborhood, so why not do it from home? If you have a video camera or a webcam on your computer, record yourself singing your favorite Christmas songs. Then upload the video file and send it to your relatives! They'll get a kick out of seeing you sing on their computer! If you don't have a video camera, call up your grandma or grandpa and sing to them over the phone!
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PETALING JAYA: Each week, at least 10 elderly Malaysians end up in old folks homes and that is just the official average, based on centres registered under the Welfare Department.
According to department director-general Datuk Norani Hashim, an average of 536 elderly persons were placed in registered centres each year between 2009 and 2012.
"The actual number could be much higher as some privately run homes are not registered with the department," she said.
She said between 1993 and last year, a total of 4,968 senior citizens were placed in 211 centres nationwide.
"Perak has the most number with 1,339 in 56 centres, followed by Selangor with 860 in 45 centres but only nine of the centres are under direct supervision of the department," she added.
In Kuala Lumpur, Foong Peng Lam, the coordinator of Rumah Kasih, which takes in old folks and patients found abandoned in government hospitals, said at least one person was admitted each week.
He said most of the patients were abandoned because their families claimed they could not afford to take care of them.
"Their family members do not provide any form of financial assistance and do not come over to visit," he said.
The home has taken in over 600 abandoned individuals since its inception in 2000.
"Weak elderly people who had collapsed by the roadside were also brought in by strangers.
"There were also those who were brought in by family members who never return to visit or take them home," he said.
Foong said the number of abandoned patients had been increasing steadily – from seven in 2000, to the 60 at present.
Apart from Hospital Kuala Lumpur, the home has been taking in patients from Hospital Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia, Hospital Selayang, Tung Shin Hospital, Hospital Seremban, Hospital Sungai Buloh, University Malaya Medical Centre, Hospital Ampang and Hospital Kajang.
He said the hospitals would first try to contact the families, who would usually promise to take the patient home, but never turn up.
"This can go on for up to two months before they bring a patient in.
"Even when we manage to contact the families they usually refuse to take any responsibility," he added.
Figures from the National Population and Family Development Board, an agency under the Women, Family and Community Development Ministry, show that about 675,000 elderly parents did not receive financial support from their children in 2004 when the Fourth Malaysian Population and Family Survey was conducted.
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IMPORTANT UPDATE: I just spoke by landline to my friend who is in Alexandria. She had so much to say, and all of it is worth hearing and spreading, so I will post it in its entirety.
She was near tears the entire time, and she is scared and exhausted but exhilarated. This is the story of a woman turned political by circumstance.
I was out there today in the streets and it was perfect, it was perfect. We walked almost 20 kilometers together and it was safe and it was pacific, and it was okay. It was okay.
This is huge. They have cut off our mobiles and cut off our internet. I don't know how it will end. I am so overwhelmed.
The people are welcoming the army, and I don't know, we are waiting. Aside from cutting us off from the rest of the world, I don't know why they don't take any action. The [Egyptian] media is full of lies. There was no Brotherhood activity, no Islamic thing, no party—we were us, we were us. We were chanting, "We are one."
This day, it was the best day of my life, seriously. I felt so safe among Egyptians. These reports of sexual harassment, there was none, absolutely none. Guys were so protective of women, making sure they were not at the edges of the protest, making sure they were safe.
We were promised that this asshole will give a speech. The weird part is we didn't see any police. So, where is the system? There is no police, no ministry, no president, where is the system?
Just make sure everyone knows we are cut off from the world.
I mean, this is my first time in the street, and I know many, many, many people like me. But if they even ignore my little request and cut off my mobile and internet, and treat me like shit, what do they expect? I mean, they cut us off from the rest of the world, and what are they expecting people to do? I will take to the streets!


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How about 'Debt-challenged yet extremely picturesque euro states'?
Those sensitivity-training courses for investment bankers must be paying off.
British bank Barclays Capital has forbidden staffers from using the popular PIIGS acronym -- referring to Portugal, Ireland, Italy, Greece and Spain -- as shorthand in research reports referring to the fiscal woes of those countries, which this week triggered a global market rout.
"Please alert your teams not to use the acronym PIIGS in any written communication," Barclays told staffers in a memo, according to the FT Alphaville blog.
Neither are the FT (Financial Times) properties permitted to use the PIIGS acronym, Alphaville says.
Agence France Press reported in 2008 that PIGS (with one "I") "has been used as an abbreviation for Portugal, Italy, Greece and Spain since at least 1999, when they and eight other countries adopted the euro as a common currency."
Alphaville suggests "Club Med" as an alternative shorthand reference, although that would have to exclude Ireland, of course. (Alternatively, "Club Med + One" might work.)
Italian bankers, meanwhile, contend that their country doesn't belong in the acronym at all.
And Gregor MacDonald asserts that the U.S. ought to be focusing on its own version of the PIIGS -- seven big states facing cashless coffers. Naturally, California makes the list.
-- Tom Petruno


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Disease and illness is all around us. Black Death, Swine Flu, Mad Cow Disease…. what do all of these say about us? Are we pushing our existence to the limit?
David Arnold asks these questions and more in The Problem of Nature: Environment, Culture, and European Expansion. When discussing epidemic diseases he asks if these natural disasters are more culturally or environmentally influenced. Killing some twenty million in Europe alone, the Black Death was devastating… or was it?
Starting in 1346 and returning every ten to twelve years, the Black Death took a toll Europe's population, but allowed the surrounding environment to grow strong again. The declining wolf population had a chance to rebound. The wetlands and forests were able to recover. Due to the lack of able bodies to work, people were forced to come up with new way of doing things—technology advanced. Would these things have happened if the plague remained with the rats and didn't jump to human hosts?
The Spanish Flu of 1918 hit hard—killing an estimated 40 million people.
In the small village close to Nome, Brevig Mission was nearly wiped out by this virus. Of its 80 members, 72 died because of the flu. In his book, The Forgotten Pandemic, Alfred Crosby states, "Spanish influenza did to Nome and the Seward Peninsula what the Black Death did to fourteenth-century Europe." Research has shown that in this case, the disease originated in birds and mutated to infect humans. Is this Mother Nature way of saying back off or else?
These disease, as horrible as they are, I feel are a necessary cycle. Not only did these epidemics give the population a little break, but forced humans to make advances in medicine and technology. With today's vaccinations an epidemic that is comparable to the Black Death or Spanish Flu will be hard to match, but eventually one will come and ease the pressure we are putting on our environment.


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Director: Alfred Hitchcock
Production: Paramount Pictures; Technicolor, 35mm; running time: 127 minutes. Released May 1958. Re-released 1983. Filmed in part in San Francisco.
Producer: Alfred Hitchcock; screenplay: Alec Coppel and Samuel Taylor, from the novel D'entre les morts by Pierre Boileau and Thomas Narcejac; photography: Robert Burks; editor: George Tomasini; art director: Hal Pereira and Henry Bumstead; music: Bernard Herrmann.
Cast: James Stewart (John Ferguson); Kim Novak (Madeline/Judy); Barbara Bel Geddes (Midge); Tom Helmore (Gavin Eister); Henry Jones.
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Not particularly successful at the time of its release, Vertigo has come to be recognized as one of Alfred Hitchcock's greatest films, where his profounder obsessions are reinforced by his technical inventiveness. It can be argued that Hitchcock's "greatness" comes only from the accident that his recurring obsession with voyeurism is the topic that best meshes with the ontology of the filmgoing experience. In any case, the longstanding argument over the superiority of his British vs. American periods looks to have been settled in favor of the latter. The less savory aspects of Hitchcock's life revealed since his death come as little surprise if Rear Window, Vertigo, and Psycho are seen as a supreme voyeuristic trilogy.
The Peeping Toms in these films progress through ever-greater distress—from the ostensibly healthy (if significantly broken-legged) James Stewart with his telephoto lens in Rear Window through the psychotic Anthony Perkins with his motel peephole in Psycho. If Stewart's Scotty Ferguson, the private eye in Vertigo, is more fascinating than either, it's because he's so precariously balanced between their psychic states. A former police detective who's developed a pathological fear of heights since being responsible for the fatal fall of a fellow officer, Scotty is institutionalized for a year in the middle of the film after assuming (wrongly) that his "weakness" (as the coroner puts it) prevented him from stopping the suicidal leap of the woman he was hired to protect and with whom he's fallen in love. The film ends at the moment of her "second" death. It's as bleak a conclusion as in any American film of its decade; Psycho is a rich comedy in comparison.
The voyeuristic impulse behind Hitchcock's style is most immediately evident in the tourist sensibility that pervades his American films—a tourist will keep his careful distance from the grit of the world. Here, the Golden Gate Bridge, the Palace of the Legion of Honor, Podesta's flowershop, Ernie's restaurant, Coit Tower, Fort Point, the Palace of Fine Arts make up San Francisco's slick surface through Robert Burks's sharp-edged Technicolor. Hitchcock's silent film mastery pays off in the scenes involving Scotty's extended tailing of Madeleine, accompanied by Bernard Herrmann's haunting score.
Vertigo extends this passive, tourist's world into more intimate levels. The film's plotline is the hokiest of ghost stories ("Do you believe that someone out of the past, someone dead, can take possession of a living being?"), but it soon moves into tragedy through flaws wrought by sexual obsession. The highly charged, pivotal scene comes quite late: Scotty has met a woman who reminds him of his dead love (in fact, she is the same woman—her fabricated "death" having been the cover for a man's murder of his wife). They return to his bachelor apartment after an increasingly uncomfortable afternoon of buying clothes to make the woman resemble her previous incarnation. Judy's plea, spoken almost to herself, is: "Couldn't you like me, just me, the way I am?" What looks for an instant like Scotty's gaze of reciprocated love is instead his revelation of the key for her complete transformation: "The color of your hair!" The scene lurches forward into an ultimate degradation, as Judy agrees to remake her brunette-shopgirl self into the (Hitchcockian) blonde ice-goddess, with tailored grey suit and tightly bound hair. The scene, and the whole film, is the essence of the Hitchcockian sexuality—that is, sexuality only exists as obsession, one that degrades women and literally deranges men. In Vertigo, Hitchcock does manage to be pointed about the ironies of this quest: Scotty looks longingly at other blondes in harsh grey suits even while dining with a vibrant incarnation of the woman he "loves." In a sense, he gets just what he deserves.
The film's genius is depicting such perversity as merely circumstance-crossed love. In other words, its genius is in revealing the perversity behind accepted "normal" practices. What's so odd about men redressing their women? Or in women remaking themselves in the adored image? Judy's plea puts it embarrassingly straight: "If I let you change me, will that do it? Will you love me?" Traditional sexual politics swells into a grand grotesque, a Chinese-box melodrama of tricks and betrayals. The scenario itself is complicated and inconsistent, but the repeated motifs in the dialogue ("Please try!" "It's too late.") tie the disconnected love-pairings into the tightest of nets. Hitchcock is typically cruel to plain Midge, with her patient, enduring love for Scotty. Her explanation of cantilevered brassieres is a woman's anti-mystery, pathetically commonplace next to Madeleine's apparent possession by the dead. Madeleine's feigned obsession presages Scotty's genuine necrophilia. (And, as in Psycho, the psychiatrist can't strip away the necessary layers—the problem is more than the "acute melancholia, complicated by a guilt complex" offered as a diagnosis or explanation of the problem.)
It's easy enough to appreciate the best of Hitchcock's films, and to be jolted by them, but Vertigo stands alone in its ability to move audiences emotionally. Perhaps the events are uncharacteristically heartbreaking because both Scotty and Madeline/Judy are caught in another, grander (and almost unseen) male power-play: Gavin's murder of his wife, his betrayal of his friend Scotty, and his abandonment of his accomplice Judy. A bookseller, echoing Gavin's words (and his actions), tells the tale of the original Carlotta being "thrown away" by her husband: "A man could do that in those days. He had the power and the freedom." On its visceral level, Vertigo succeeds because of James Stewart's explosive fury in the climax in the belltower, a betrayed idealist's fury practiced in his Frank Capra films and mastered through his Anthony Mann westerns.
It's remarkable that, considering all its plot twists, Vertigo should work even better after a first viewing. Once the secret's out, it's a completely different film, and a better one; no longer a harrowing ghost story, it is a profound study of sexual obsession, tied together by the city that best displays the essential acrophobic metaphor.
—Scott Simmon
Vertigo (VER-ti-go) is dizziness in which people feel that they or their surroundings are moving, often causing loss of balance.
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What Is Vertigo?
Vertigo is different from other forms of dizziness because it is caused by disturbances in the structures that control the sense of balance. These structures include the vestibule and semicircular canals in the ear, the vestibular (ves-TIB-u-lar) nuclei in the brain stem, and the eyes. There are many different kinds of vertigo.
Benign paroxysmal vertigo of childhood
Benign* paroxysmal (par-ok-SIZ-mal) vertigo is a condition that sometimes affects toddlers, who may suddenly lose their balance, roll their eyes, and become pale, dizzy, or nauseated for a few minutes. They usually recover quickly and often outgrow this form of vertigo.
- * benign
- (be-NINE) means a condition is not cancerous or serious and will probably improve, go away, or not get worse.
Positional vertigo
Positional vertigo may occur following changes in head position, especially when lying on one ear or when tipping back the head to look up. The symptoms tend to appear in clusters that last for several days. The vertigo begins several seconds after head movement and usually stops in under a minute. Some of the causes of positional vertigo are trauma to the ear, an ear infection, ear surgery, or degeneration because of aging inner ear organs that are involved in balance. Surgery can sometimes correct positional vertigo.
Ménière's disease
This is sometimes called Ménière's syndrome* or recurrent aural vertigo. It is caused by damage to the balance organs in the ears, although doctors often do not know the cause of the damage. In addition to vertigo, symptoms often include tinnitus (ti-NY-tis), which is a ringing, buzzing, or roaring in the ears. It may also cause gradual deafness in the affected ear. Meniere's disease can be controlled but not cured with medication.
- * syndrome
- means a group or pattern of symptoms and/or signs that occur together.
Labyrinthitis (lab-i-rin-THY-tis) is an inflammation of the labyrinth in the inner ear, possibly as a result of viral infection in the upper respiratory tract. The labyrinth is a group of canals in the inner ear that is important for balance. Symptoms of labyrinthitis are sudden onset of severe vertigo lasting for several days, hearing loss, and tinnitus in the affected ear. During the recovery period, which may last several weeks, rapid head movement causes temporary vertigo.
Vestibular neuronitis
Vestibular neuronitis (noo-ro-NY-tis) is sometimes called epidemic vertigo and is thought to be the result of a virus that causes inflammation of the vestibular nerve cells. Vestibular neuronitis
usually causes a single attack of severe vertigo with nausea and vomiting that lasts for a few days. There is no hearing loss or tinnitus, and doctors will often prescribe medication to help with the dizziness and nausea.
Traumatic vertigo
Traumatic vertigo is one of the most common types of vertigo. It usually follows a head injury. The symptoms generally start to improve within several days but may last for weeks. Deafness often accompanies the vertigo on the side of the head that received the trauma. In some cases, surgery may be required to correct damage to the ear structures.
Acoustic neuromas
Acoustic neuromas are benign tumors that form in the vestibular nerve, affecting nerve signals for balance and hearing from the ear to the brain. Symptoms are hearing loss, tinnitus, dizziness, and unsteadiness. Surgery to remove the tumor improves the vertigo.
How Do Doctors Treat Vertigo?
Doctors often prescribe medication to reduce the dizziness, nausea, and sense of motion of vertigo. Other treatments will vary according to the cause of the vertigo.
See also
Motion Sickness
The U.S. National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders (NIDCD) posts information about hearing and balance at its website, which includes a special section called Kids and Teachers. http://www.nih.gov/nidcd
Vestibular Disorders Association, P.O. Box 4467, Portland, OR 97208-4467. The Vestibular Disorders Association posts information at its website about vertigo, labyrinthitis, neuronitis, Meniere's disease, and other inner-ear balance disorders. It also offers a video and brochure called Dealing with Dizziness. http://www.vestibular.org
Vertigo ★★★★ 1958 (PG)
Hitchcock's romantic story of obsession, manipulation and fear. Stewart plays a detective forced to retire after his fear of heights causes the death of a fellow policeman and, perhaps, the death of a woman he'd been hired to follow. The appearance of her double (Novak), whom he compulsively transforms into the dead girl's image, leads to a mesmerizing cycle of madness and lies. Features Herrmann's haunting music. 126m/C VHS, DVD . James Stewart, Kim Novak, Barbara Bel Geddes, Tom Helmore, Ellen Corby, Henry Jones, Raymond Bailey, Lee Patrick; D: Alfred Hitchcock; W: Samuel A. Taylor; C: Robert Burks; M: Bernard Herrmann. AFI '98: Top 100, Natl. Film Reg. '89.
ver·ti·go / ˈvərtəgō/ • n. a sensation of whirling and loss of balance, associated particularly with looking down from a great height, or caused by disease affecting the inner ear or the vestibular nerve; giddiness.


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The web allows one to use many different technologies, some of which are very complex. For this reason, the time needed to design and set up a site can vary a lot: from a few days for simple html pages to a month or more for sites with dynamic content, databases, animation, management software, e-commerce, etc... The timing can be calculated in advance, depending on the client's needs and conditions.
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The main aspect of business communications which concerns Rigamonti Adv Design is the development of the company image, or corporate identity. When we talk about image, we are often inclined to think in terms of the typical shop window, where what you see up front is what you get. The company image, on the other hand, is based on facts: everything other than a façade. Our task is to identify and emphasize the unique character and potential of the individual concern.
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- FLASH FOR NETSURFING Using Flash for normal netsurfing is not really successful, it should only be used to provide extra capacity not available on the web. The site editor should concentrate on interesting content and not on the design. According to Nielsen, Flash shouldn't be used for surfing at all: visitors prefer a predictable form of surfing, and the use of a static menu, without complicated graphics.
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Remove Searchfast.ru virus (Virus Removal Instructions) - Chrome, Firefox, IE, Edge
Seeing Searchfast.ru on your browser is the sign of infection
Searchfast.ru is a potentially unwanted program (PUP) and a browser hijacker. The program might enter the system bundled with freeware and alter Google Chrome's, Mozilla Firefox's, Internet Explorer's and other popular browser's settings in order to take over the targeted browser.
The hijacker mostly aims at computer users located in Russia.[1] However, careless software installation from unknown sources may help it to infiltrate devices in other parts of the world.
On the affected device, it alters browser's settings in order to set http://searchfast.ru/go/?q= as default search engine and homepage address. To prevent users from switching back to their preferred domain, the hijacker might alter Windows Registry and various shortcuts. Thus, Searchfast.ru removal might be slightly complicated.
When these changes are made, the hijacker might start causing undesired activities on the browser, such as delivering lots of commercial content on the browser. It might alter search results and include sponsored links at the top of the results page.
What is more, Searchfast.ru virus might also display pop-ups, banners, discount coupons and other types of online ads while users are browsing the web. Undoubtedly, such activities diminish browsing experience. However, these ads might put users at risk too.
One of the biggest problems related to the hijacker is its redirect tendencies. This cyber threat might deliver potentially dangerous content that may lead to high-risk websites. Here users might be tricked to install or purchase bogus software, reveal personal information to criminals or get infected with a malicious trojan.
As you can see, clicking on content provided by this program might end up with computer-related problems or data loss. However, the hijacker might also be interested in tracking information.[2] Usually, such data includes:
- IP address;
- location;
- search keywords;
- clicked ads;
- visited websites;
- other browsing-related data.
Usually, this data is used for displaying interest-based ads. However, it might also be shared or sold to unknown third-parties and advertising networks. Thus, you can expect an increased amount of strange online ads.
However, this browser add-on is also known of being capable of installing partners' extension and tracking technologies. The problem is that these tools might be harmful and lead to serious privacy-related issues. For this reason, you should remove Searchfast.ru from the computer with the help of Reimage Reimage Cleaner Intego.
Searchfast.ru is a suspicious search tool that might appear on the computer after the installation of freeware.
The hijack might occur during the installation of freeware
For a while, this tool has been available on Chrome Play store and other legitimate websites. However, currently Searchfast.ru is hard to find on any of such sites, but computer users report about hijacked web browsers continuously.
Indeed, one of the main ways how the hijacker is spread is software bundles. Thus, the Searchfast.ru hijack might occur during the installation of freeware or shareware.[3] This program might be added as an optional download, and if user rushes to install the necessary software, he or she might install undesired apps as well.
In order to avoid such applications, you have to:
- use Advanced/Custom installation method;
- monitor installation procedure;
- read notifications, Privacy Policy, and EULA;
- look up for the checkbox with pre-selected entries and unmark them all.
Terminate Searchfast.ru virus from the computer right now
Just like any other browser hijacker, this one can be eliminated either manually or automatically. Manual Searchfast.ru removal suggest investigating the system and deleting all hijacker-related files.
By following the instructions below, you need to check the list of installed programs via Control Panel. If you cannot find any suspicious software, you should review installed browser extension of each of your web browser. Once all suspicious entries are terminated, you have to reset browsers.
If you would like to simplify this procedure, you can remove Searchfast.ru automatically. This method offers to scan the system with anti-malware software and deleting all suspicious files with the help of it.
You may remove virus damage with a help of Reimage Reimage Cleaner Intego. SpyHunter 5Combo Cleaner and Malwarebytes are recommended to detect potentially unwanted programs and viruses with all their files and registry entries that are related to them.
To remove Searchfast.ru virus, follow these steps:
Eliminate Searchfast.ru from Windows systems
In order to remove Searchfast.ru browser hijacker, you need to investigate the system and look up for suspicious programs installed to your PC.
- Click Start → Control Panel → Programs and Features (if you are Windows XP user, click on Add/Remove Programs).
- If you are Windows 10 / Windows 8 user, then right-click in the lower left corner of the screen. Once Quick Access Menu shows up, select Control Panel and Uninstall a Program.
- Uninstall Searchfast.ru and related programs
Here, look for Searchfast.ru or any other recently installed suspicious programs.
- Uninstall them and click OK to save these changes.
- Remove Searchfast.ru from Windows shortcuts
Right click on the shortcut of Mozilla Firefox and select Properties.
- Go to Shortcut tab and look at the Target field. Delete malicious URL that is related to your virus.
Repeat steps that are given above with all browsers' shortcuts, including Internet Explorer and Google Chrome. Make sure you check all locations of these shortcuts, including Desktop, Start Menu and taskbar.
Delete Searchfast.ru from Mac OS X system
- If you are using OS X, click Go button at the top left of the screen and select Applications.
- Wait until you see Applications folder and look for Searchfast.ru or any other suspicious programs on it. Now right click on every of such entries and select Move to Trash.
Get rid of Searchfast.ru from Internet Explorer (IE)
After the hijack, you have to clean Internet Explorer from hijacker-related components. These guidelines will help you:
Remove dangerous add-ons
Open Internet Explorer, click on the Gear icon (IE menu) on the top right corner of the browser and choose Manage Add-ons.
- You will see a Manage Add-ons window. Here, look for Searchfast.ru and other suspicious plugins. Disable these entries by clicking Disable:
Change your homepage if it was altered by virus:
Click on the gear icon (menu) on the top right corner of the browser and select Internet Options. Stay in General tab.
- Here, remove malicious URL and enter preferable domain name. Click Apply to save changes.
Reset Internet Explorer
Click on the gear icon (menu) again and select Internet options. Go to Advanced tab.
- Here, select Reset.
- When in the new window, check Delete personal settings and select Reset again to complete Searchfast.ru removal.
Uninstall Searchfast.ru virus from Microsoft Edge
Follow the instructions to fix Microsoft Edge after the hijack.
Reset Microsoft Edge settings (Method 1):
- Launch Microsoft Edge app and click More (three dots at the top right corner of the screen).
- Click Settings to open more options.
- Once Settings window shows up, click Choose what to clear button under Clear browsing data option.
- Here, select all what you want to remove and click Clear.
- Now you should right-click on the Start button (Windows logo). Here, select Task Manager.
- When in Processes tab, search for Microsoft Edge.
- Right-click on it and choose Go to details option. If can't see Go to details option, click More details and repeat previous steps.
- When Details tab shows up, find every entry with Microsoft Edge name in it. Right click on each of them and select End Task to end these entries.
Resetting Microsoft Edge browser (Method 2):
If Method 1 failed to help you, you need to use an advanced Edge reset method.
- Note: you need to backup your data before using this method.
- Find this folder on your computer:
- Select every entry which is saved on it and right click with your mouse. Then Delete option.
- Click the Start button (Windows logo) and type in window power in Search my stuff line.
- Right-click the Windows PowerShell entry and choose Run as administrator.
- Once Administrator: Windows PowerShell window shows up, paste this command line after PS C:\WINDOWS\system32> and press Enter:
Get-AppXPackage -AllUsers -Name Microsoft.MicrosoftEdge | Foreach {Add-AppxPackage -DisableDevelopmentMode -Register $($_.InstallLocation)\AppXManifest.xml -Verbose}
Once these steps are finished, Searchfast.ru should be removed from your Microsoft Edge browser.
Remove Searchfast.ru from Mozilla Firefox (FF)
In order to get rid of all hijacker-related files, you need to uninstall Search Fast and other suspicious extensions from Mozilla Firefox.
Remove dangerous extensions
Open Mozilla Firefox, click on the menu icon (top right corner) and select Add-ons → Extensions.
- Here, select Searchfast.ru and other questionable plugins. Click Remove to delete these entries.
Change your homepage if it was altered by virus:
Click on the menu (top right corner), choose Options → General.
- Here, delete malicious URL and enter preferable website or click Restore to default.
- Click OK to save these changes.
Reset Mozilla Firefox
Click on the Firefox menu on the top left and click on the question mark. Here, choose Troubleshooting Information.
- Now you will see Reset Firefox to its default state message with Reset Firefox button. Click this button for several times and complete Searchfast.ru removal.
Erase Searchfast.ru from Google Chrome
Getting rid of Searchfast.ru requires uninstalling unknown browser extensions and resetting Google Chrome.
Delete malicious plugins
Open Google Chrome, click on the menu icon (top right corner) and select Tools → Extensions.
- Here, select Searchfast.ru and other malicious plugins and select trash icon to delete these entries.
Change your homepage and default search engine if it was altered by your virus
Click on menu icon and choose Settings.
- Here, look for the Open a specific page or set of pages under On startup option and click on Set pages.
- Now you should see another window. Here, delete malicious search sites and enter the one that you want to use as your homepage.
- Click on menu icon again and choose Settings → Manage Search engines under the Search section.
- When in Search Engines..., remove malicious search sites. You should leave only Google or your preferred domain name.
Reset Google Chrome
Click on menu icon on the top right of your Google Chrome and select Settings.
- Scroll down to the end of the page and click on Reset browser settings.
- Click Reset to confirm this action and complete Searchfast.ru removal.
Eliminate Searchfast.ru from Safari
- Remove dangerous extensions
Open Safari web browser and click on Safari in menu at the top left of the screen. Once you do this, select Preferences.
- Here, select Extensions and look for Searchfast.ru or other suspicious entries. Click on the Uninstall button to get rid each of them.
Change your homepage if it was altered by virus:
Open your Safari web browser and click on Safari in menu section. Here, select Preferences as it was displayed previously and select General.
- Here, look at the Homepage field. If it was altered by Searchfast.ru, remove unwanted link and enter the one that you want to use for your searches. Remember to include the "http://" before typing in the address of the page.
Reset Safari
Open Safari browser and click on Safari in menu section at the top left of the screen. Here, select Reset Safari....
- Now you will see a detailed dialog window filled with reset options. All of those options are usually checked, but you can specify which of them you want to reset. Click the Reset button to complete Searchfast.ru removal process.
Access your website securely from any location
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I frequently discuss the subject of law firm websites. In the modern era, your website is your firm's shop window. The question is, how often do potential clients look in?
That's largely down to how your site is performing in search engine rankings. If you aren't near the top of page one on Google, no-one will see you. So, when Google decides to mix things up a little, you need to pay attention.
Google commits itself to making your online security its main priority. Since October of this year, version 62 of Google's Chrome browser will display a "Not secure" warning in the address bar at the top of the page if you enter data into a form on an HTTP website.
So, what are HTTP and HTTPS? The former stands for Hypertext Transfer Protocol. It defines how messages are formatted and transmitted, and what actions web servers and browsers take in response to various commands. Many of the websites you visit, particularly online shopping sites, run the alternative HTTPS system. Google is now encouraging everyone to move to HTTPS. The extra "S" standing for "Secure".
In addition, if you don't have an HTTPS website, Google will penalise you in search page rankings. You may just not appear at all.
Any sign that your site is insecure will make potential clients think twice before contacting you. In addition, if your non-secure site means you are not listed in search results, new business enquiries will take a hit.
According to a recent article in Today's Wills and Probate News, an estimated 80% of all law firms will be affected by the changes. Clearly, these are changes that you should not take lightly. You are always only one click away from losing a potential new client. It doesn't make sense to do nothing as, effectively, you are sending an enquirer direct to one of your competitors.
Fortunately, this is an issue that you can easily rectify. Contact your web hosting company and seek their advice about the best way to move to HTTPS.
HTTPS pages typically use one of two secure protocols to encrypt communications – SSL (Secure Sockets Layer) or TLS (Transport Layer Security).
Whatever the case, a good web hosting company should be able to make the change for you with little fuss. If this isn't the case, consider moving your site to a reputable host.
When we made the change at LawWare, the whole job was completed by our web hosting company in a matter of an hour.
You may have to redirect a few of your key URLs on your site. However, your hosting company can help with this too. For most modern websites built on the WordPress platform, this is not necessary.
When LawWare moved its website over to HTTPS, we noticed a slight dip, followed by a marked improvement in our Google rankings. It was well worth the effort in terms of hits to the site and enquiries generated.
We also took the opportunity to look at a few other aspects of our site to help our rankings and visibility. I suggest you do the same. The main one is to assess how your site is set up for search engine optimisation. You will probably need professional assistance to do this but, in terms of improving your rankings and new enquiries, it's well worth it.
In addition, the following earlier posts offer an idea of alternative methods to improve your site:
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*There's not a lot of science fiction around these days, so pretty soon science will have to put up with being influenced by paranormal romance.
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*I never minded that working scientists were influenced by science fiction, but I was always impressed by what bad science fiction scientists liked. It was usually junk that they had read back when they were 14, before they had to knuckle down and earn a doctorate.
An entire cottage industry now exists to facilitate this process of extracting certain technical resources from science fiction (and often fantasy and horror fiction, as well): the subgenre of popular science writing whose formula is "The Science of [X Media Franchise]." For example, The Science of Anime: Mecha‐Noids and AI‐Super‐Bots (2005), by Lois H. Gresh and Robert E. Weinberg, assesses science fiction concepts from a variety of anime series that might be viable in the "real world," explaining what further developments would be needed to turn them into science (thus complementing those modding processes that take place, for example, in the labs of Mechanized Propulsion Systems). Written by sundry professional scientists and science popularizers, books such as Anne Simon's The Real Science Behind the X‐Files: Microbes, Meteorites, and Mutants (1999), Roger Highfield's The Science of Harry Potter (2002), and Jeanne Cavelos's The Science of Star Wars: An Astrophysicist's Independent Examination of Space Travel, Aliens, Planets, and Robots as Portrayed in the Star Wars Films and Books (1999) remix popular culture with elite science.
While initiating the labor of blueprint mods, these books often attend to elements of science fiction that, in their native (i.e., diegetic) form, cannot be directly adapted to technical purposes. Cavelos writes that, over the course of her scientific training, "I was already fascinated by the idea of space travel, and Star Wars fueled my interest in space exploration and the possibility of alien life. As I went through college studying astrophysics, though, I was taught again and again the scientific truths that made Star Wars impossible."18 Such elements of "impossibility," in order to enter into the discourse and practice of professional science at all, must therefore be modified to a more extreme degree. And this type of modification we might then consider under the category of supplementary mods.
The supplementary mod appears in the laboratory as an approximation or compensation, a scientifically viable alternative to some otherwise appealing, but technically impossible, science fiction conceit. A typical example of the supplementary mod can be found in the research of David R. Smith and his colleagues on transformation optics and the electromagnetic cloaking of matter at microwave frequencies—in other words, the science of "invisibility shields" and "cloaking devices." Smith has described his research on transformation optics as a workaround method to the fictional invisibility technologies seen in Fantastic Four comic books, the Star Trek series, and even the Harry Potter books (((told ya))):
There is undeniably a link between science fact and the ideas that emerge in science fiction and fantasy. Science fiction authors are inspired by actual scientific and technological discoveries, but allow themselves the freedom to project the possible future course of these discoveries and their potential impact on society, perhaps remaining only weakly tethered to the facts. … Scientists, in turn, often derive inspiration from the imaginative possibilities that exist in fictional worlds, but are constrained to follow the laws of nature that apply in this world. The inventions in fictional worlds seldom transition to the real world—at least not in the way they are first imagined.19
So the cloaking devices employed by Romulans in Star Trek may not be directly adaptable to science, at least "not in the way they are first imagined" by the television shows ("One shouldn't pay very much to obtain the secrets of Romulan cloaking technology," Smith cautions). But Smith's research now becomes a scientifically acceptable supplement. Enabling the science symbolically to attach itself to the grand future imagined by the Star Trek saga and similar narratives, the supplementary modification lends itself to new blueprints for future science and future fiction: "We have now succeeded in taking the prospect of invisibility from the realm of science fiction and fantasy to reality, providing what amounts to a blueprint for a cloaking device. … So, while we [researchers] have been inspired by the invisibility of fictional worlds, perhaps the discoveries that might follow from transformation optics will in turn have an impact in fictional worlds—as well as in the actual world."20
Finally, the speculative mod. This modified form of science fiction appears frequently in scientific writing as a way of discussing possible futures and extrapolations of current research. As historians and cultural theorists of science, we are becoming increasingly attentive to the powerful role that scientific speculation, technological forecasting, and promissory futures play in the development of science and to how futurological narratives and road maps function as scripts in the everyday routine of laboratory protocols.21
But we have yet fully to take on the manifold ways these practices interrelate with the predominant mode of speculative narration in the modern era—namely, science fiction. Its generic traces can often be discerned where scientific probabilities or expectations for the future are rendered as discourse, as a now quotidian way of speaking about the consequences of scientific or technological change: the everydayness in postindustrial societies of what Brooks Landon has called "science fiction thinking" and Istvan Csicsery‐Ronay, Jr., has called "science fictionality."22
We could point to a number of famous speculative mods, such as J. B. S. Haldane's Daedalus (1924) or Ray Kurzweil's The Singularity Is Near (2005).23 But for the sciences at large, speculative mods appear most commonly in the concluding sections of research articles or funding proposals, which often venture into social potentials, payoffs, and other visions. Particularly in cases where the future of the world is imagined to hinge on the evolution of the research (such as we have seen, historically, in the fields of spaceflight, nuclear physics, cybernetics, genomics, and nanotechnology, among others), we observe something like a close encounter of the fourth kind: abduction by an alien force.24 Or, to put it another way: the scientific inhabitation of the narrative patterns and generic tropes of science fiction … no longer alien….Go Back to Top. Skip To: Start of Article.


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Building for our future:
A vision for social housing
The final report of our commission on the future of social housing
Our commission came together after the Grenfell Tower fire to set out how to build a better future for social housing.
We can see the impact of the housing crisis everywhere, from the increase in both young families and older people trapped in unaffordable privately rented homes, to the increasing homelessness that scars our society.
Unless we act now, we face a future in which a generation of young families will be trapped renting privately for their whole lives, where more and more people will grow old in private rentals, where billions more in welfare costs will be paid to private landlords – and hundreds of thousands more people will be forced into homelessness.
Our commission recommends a historic renewal of social housing, with a 20-year programme to deliver 3.1 million more social homes. This will allow the benefits of social housing to be offered much more widely – providing both security for those in need and a step up for young families trying to get on and save for their future.
And we are calling for a stronger voice for tenants, and a new regulator working across social and private renting to protect residents and enforce standards.
Join us in putting social housing at the heart of the solution to the housing crisis.
I don't know how I'm ever going to be better off. I'd love to live in social housing, but I don't stand a chance.
I really feel that if I'd been in stable social housing for the last 10 years, I'd be in a position to buy my own home now. But it didn't work out like that. Instead, all my money has gone on rent, moving costs, and fees.
What do we recommend?
What do we recommend?
3.1 million more social homes
- a historic renewal of social housing
- social homes, providing both security for those in need and a step up for young families trying to get on and save for their future
Reforming renting
- introduce a new regulator to improve standards
- give social renters a stronger voice both locally and nationally
The Big Conversation
31,000 people took part in our Big Conversation
20 organisations submitted evidence, from the Local Government Association to mental health charity Mind
13 public housing debates were held across the country
16 independent commissioners came together from across the political spectrum, and with a diverse range of backgrounds
If we can't be bothered to give a helping hand to those who need it most, then where do we stand as a people – and a community?
Very few people in positions of power understand what this experience is like. I doubt they've ever had to live in poor housing or know what it is like to feel invisible, like no one cares.
The housing crisis
Today we are feeling the effects of 40 years of failure in housing policy. This crisis has seen a catastrophic decline in social housing, leaving millions in insecure and unaffordable rented homes – with home ownership an impossible dream, and increasing numbers of people tipped into homelessness.
From the Second World War up to 1980, we were building an average of around 126,000 social homes every year. Last year, there were only 6,463 new social homes.
The private rented sector is bursting at the seams – with many renters trapped in unaffordable, insecure homes.
If we continue as we are, only half of today's young people are likely to ever own their own home – and a generation of younger people and many who are retired will spend their lives struggling with insecure, expensive renting. Over the next twenty years, hundreds of thousands more people will be forced into homelessness by insecure tenancies and sky-high housing costs. But if we act now, we can change this.
Housebuilding In England 1923 – 2018
Reforming renting
Our Recommendations Graph
- Economic regulator, similar to Prudential Regulation Authority
- Registration, monitoring and enforcement of private registered providers (e.g. housing associations)
- New consumer regulator, similar to Financial Conduct Authority
- Registration, monitoring and enforcement of all social and private landlords which own over 25 homes
Social renters are more protected from eviction, but they face stigma and indifference – and too often, their complaints go nowhere. Too many private renters are stuck in insecure, unaffordable tenancies; too frightened to complain about poor conditions or rent increases for fear of eviction.
We need:
- a new regulator for all renters, to proactively inspect and enforce high standards
- the removal of barriers for social renters seeking a solution to their problems
- permanent tenancies for private renters
- a new independent tenants' organisation to represent the views of social renters to government
Our flat is in a terrible condition – lots of damp and it's freezing in winter because there's no insulation. In some ways, it's probably a good thing for us to leave, but I know we won't be able to afford anywhere else nearby.
My rent is over half my monthly income, so that's where most of my money goes. It's hard to afford other things we need. I am cutting back and doing the best I can, but there are times we can't live on the money we've got.
Building more social housing
Historic data plus our 20-year vision
New homes per year
Real house prices
Historic data plus our 20-year vision
New homes per year
Real house prices
Party in government
A closer look by decade
We need to deliver 3.1 million more social homes over 20 years. This will allow the benefits of social housing to be offered much more widely, providing both security for those in need and a step up for young families trying to get on and save for their future.
This will provide hope for those in greatest difficulty – with just over 1.27m homes for those who are homeless, in the worst conditions and in ill health, over 691,000 for older renters, and 1.17m for people trapped in unaffordable, insecure private renting.
This 20-year programme will provide a return on investment in 39 years, with a cost of £10.7bn a year on average – reduced to £3.8bn when savings in benefits and increased taxes are considered. It's worth the money, compared with the £21bn spent on housing benefit annually and our £62bn budget for capital expenditure.
We're also calling for land reform to reduce the cost of land for social housing, and steps to ensure new social housing is delivered as part of mixed communities.
The time for the government to act is now. In the shadow of the Grenfell Tower fire and ten years on from the financial crisis, with the nation divided by a worsening housing crisis affecting more and more people, we need a new political consensus on social housing.
We believe this vision is the only way government can meet its 300,000 target for new homes each year. It will provide an affordable, stable home for 3.1 million households. It will command huge public support. It will, more than any other change, properly address the housing crisis and give people hope for the future.
It's not just the impact of the damp and mould that gets to me, but the way I've been treated: like dirt on someone's shoe. I've hit rock bottom many times. There's no help for people in social housing suffering from disrepair.
Reported repair issues need to be taken seriously. I gave up trying to get damaged plaster repaired after a major roof leak as I couldn't bear the accusations of being untruthful, and downright incompetence.
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You can download our full report and supporting research below.
Executive summary
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Full report
- How we did the research
- International examples of affordable housing (pdf, 8MB)
- Cost-benefit research from Capital Economics (pdf, 2.3MB)
- Results of our research with Britain Thinks (pdf, 6.9MB)
- Shelter analysis quantifying the need for new supply of social housing (pdf, 242.6KB)
- Findings from Shelter's mass consultation on social housing (pdf, 1MB)
- What is social housing?


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All deposits paid can be returned, or will remain valid until the end of the year.
The Centre will reopen as soon as it is advisable.
Situated in the beautiful countryside of Hampshire, the Krishnamurti Centre offers a quiet retreat for those wishing to explore the teachings of J. Krishnamurti.
Join us for theme weekends or study retreats in the peaceful surroundings of Brockwood Park, or tailor your own study programme.
Our 19 en-suite rooms have views across the beautiful gardens, and all stays are on a full-board basis.
Our consciousness is not actually yours or mine, it is the consciousness of humanity evolved, grown, accumulated through many, many centuries...when one realises this our responsibility becomes extraordinarily important.
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A guest at the Krishnamurti Centre shares her reasons for coming to the Centre and the experience of being here.


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The British Music Collection is a remarkable resource consisting of over 30,000 scores and recordings from contemporary British composers. The majority of the collection dates from 1960 onwards, but it also encompasses material stretching back to 1900. It is publicly accessible and located in a bespoke search room within the Music Library of the University of Huddersfield.
The collection is made available for reference only and cannot be loaned or removed from the library. Access is open to the general public, as well as university staff and students.


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Robert Coleby
Acteur de 73 ans (01 janvier 1947)
Robert Coleby is a British actor who has spent most of his career in Australia. Active since the 1970s, he has over 70 film and television credits to his name. Coleby has acted on stage in numerous productions for Queensland Theatre Company based in Brisbane, Australia.
Robert's real name is Robert Taylor. Since there was already a famous actor of that name, Equity rules required that he choose another. In his late teens, Robert lived in Edington, Somerset, and went to Dr Morgan's School in Bridgwater. At that time he was influenced by the beat generation, novelist Jack Kerouac and singer/songwriter Bob Dylan and performed with acoustic guitar at folk music clubs in Bridgwater and Taunton. He enjoyed hitch-hiking in Europe during the school holidays, and worked in the peat fields near Shapwick to earn enough money for his ferry ticket to France and to buy bread, cheese and wine for the few weeks on the road.


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After years of being lost, the Book of the Black came into the possession of the Dark Diviners of Windsong Tower, who retrieved it from the Fane of Shadows in 684DR.
Normally Capitalised Nouns in Fantasy Prose drives me nuts but these names are so well chosen I actually think they are rather evocative. After all, when reading this sentence do we have a vision of Windsong Tower? Is a place of airy galleries? Are we thinking chains and pits? Are we thinking that maybe the Dark Diviners wear black robes? It is great when a mere sentence can set off a whole chain of thoughts.


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FIREFIGHTERS and HAZMAT crews will remain on a southern Sydney street on Monday night as they search for the source of petrol fumes.
The vapours built up in sewer pipes beneath Loftus Avenue, Loftus, before blowing a sewer cover off about 4pm on Monday.
Fire and Rescue NSW spokesman Superintendent Ian Krimmer said an exclusion zone remained in place on Monday night as crews continued to take air samples.
"We're still getting readings on one section of the sewerage pipe," he told AAP.
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