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Holstein is the popular dairy breed kept by Indonesia dairy farmers. The dairy calves should be fed a good quality of ration to produce higher weight gain. The primary feed nutrients are protein, energy, calcium, and phosphor. The research was designed to find out the Holstein dairy calves performance on the feed nutrients. The calves were weaned on six months of age. The dairy calves performance seemed as the average daily gain and feed consumption. There were five treatments of ration with difference of protein, enegy, calcium, and phosphor constituents. The data collected during the trial were subjected to analyze of variance using completely randomized design. The treatments were replicated four times and the treatment means were tested by Duncan's multiple range test.
The research gave the result that the treatments using lower to higher nutrients constituents for (1) dry matter consumption 3.82, 4.09, 4,32, 4.40; and 4.54 kg/head/day, (2) protein consumption 0.38, 0.44, 0.51, 0.54, and 0.62 kg/head/day, (3) total digestible nutrients consumption 0.84, 1.08, 1.34, 1.48, (4) calcium consumption 0.02, 0.04, 0.04, 0.04; and 0.06 kg/head/day, (5) phosphor consumption 0.01, 0.02, 0.02, 0.02, and 0.02 kg/head/day, (6) average daily gain 0.32, 0.46, 0.58, 0.63, and 0.62/head/day, and (7) feed conversion 14.26, 9.05, 7.70, and 7.61 kg/head/day. Performance of the Holstein female dairy calves on the feed nutrients increases but not the feed conversion.
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Last month, Red Bull inaugurated a new motocross course at Munich's Olympic Park. It features a superkicker, two quarterpipes, four regular ramps, and two gap jumps... all perched on top of a lake.
Red Bull says the whole structure weights "as much 12 Boeing 747s" which equates to something like 5 million pounds, assuming they weighed those planes empty.
Here's a highlight reel:
This course was used as a stop on Red Bull's "X-Fighters World Tour" motocross competition series. Australia's Josh Sheehan won the event, but New Zealand's Levi Sherwood still leads the series with "265 points to Sheehan's 260 points."
That makes it either man's title at the series finale in Pretoria, South Africa on August 23.
As a side note, I see Red Bull went with some retro Bavarian maiden attire instead of boob-squeezing lycra suits for their champagne-trophy-dispensing staff. I like it.
Here's the entire Munich event, for your Friday afternoon entertainment:
The event will also be on TV (have you got one of those?) as a "full-length special" on FOX Sports 1, Monday, Sept. 8 at 7 pm ET/4 pm PT.
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Nelson Mandela said, 'Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.'
Well, in India that 'education' and 'power' both are the 'weapons' of the privileged. Although education is reaching street to street and house to house, but in the process of catering to the needs of the population which is on a constant rise, the quality often gets compromised.
Let's take a peek at some of the interesting and equally shocking facts on Indian education.
There are more than 774 million illiterate people in the world out of which India has the largest number of illiterate people which is about around 268 million (a whopping 35 % of the total) – who cannot read, write or make a reasoned decision.
India spends about 3% of its GDP on education, while on the other hand the 'developed countries' spends about 5.8% on an average.
The 'higher education enrollment ratio' in the United States of America is a whopping 83% which is in steep contrast to that of India which is a mere 11%.
Literacy rate for women is lower than that of men. And the literacy rate for women is highly inconsistent throughout India. The proportion of literate women varies in different states. The female literacy rate of Kerala is 86%, that of Bihar and Uttar Pradesh is 55-60% and that of rural Rajasthan has only 12%.
Since 2001, the Sarva Siksha Abhiyan has worked towards getting about 20 million students into schools, of which most of them are first generation learners.
One third of the worlds' research papers and articles are produced by the US In the global picture, India is credited for producing less than 3% and less than 1% for research papers and citations respectively.
Even the prestigious IIT's have reported a shortage of about 20%-30% in their teaching faculty.
According to official estimates, 13 million children are working to contribute to the livelihood.
It was found in a study that, 65% of school children in the slums of Hyderabad attend private schools. This establishes the fact that if given a chance, people would prefer private schools instead of government schools despite the fact that government schools provide them 'free education'.
Article by Shivangi Mehta, Intern, Yes! I Am Happy
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Is There Ever A Good Time?
You may have noticed those adorable little bottles of juice in the baby food department and wondered if it was time to let your baby have some. After all, they come from reputable baby food companies, right? So that must mean they are good for babies.
However …
Giving a baby juice isn't really nutritionally sound. Juice is pretty empty calorically, which means that his tiny tummy, full of juice, will be missing out on valuable nutrition because he will be too full to nurse, have a bottle or experiment with solid food.
Water it down
If you do choose to give your little one juice, wait until he is at least 6 months old. Just like with solid food introduction, your baby doesn't need food or drink before then besides breast milk or formula. Ideally, though, you might want to wait until he's a year old, or even older. Avoid putting it in a bottle if you can -- try to get him trained on a sippy cup so he can't lay down and nip on a bottle of juice.
And when you do give your baby some juice, water it down. Aim for half and half if you can. Juice can be acidic, and also can contain many empty calories, so keep the servings lighter with less juice.
Avoid a juice lover
Some kiddos just love juice and will drink it all day long. Juice is sugary (even 100 percent juice has lots of naturally-occurring sugar), can cause cavities and be a major tummy-filler. So it wouldn't be a horrible crime to avoid juice altogether, or keep it as a rare treat (like at grandma's house).
When he's older, he can drink juice with breakfast, but if you don't keep it as a staple when he's young it may be no big deal to him in the first place.
More on baby food
How to make quick and homemade baby food
When should you introduce baby food?
The benefits of making your own baby food


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"logistics NewsFeed" is sent out every month available online at its own website called www.logistics-newsfeed.com. Each one features a lead story with a host of visuals, in addition to an interview, the latest news, and background information from the world of DB Schenker. "logistics NewsFeed" takes a look behind the scenes and provides customers with a platform to air their views. We also send out bulletins with breaking news to keep you up to date with important developments.


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Articles from February 2013
Il trittico DVD nominated for BBC Music Magazine Award
Accessible Arias: The Queen of the Night's Act II aria from The Magic Flute
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Metamorphosis: Titian 2012 and Les Troyens nominated for South Bank Sky Arts Awards
Mara Galeazzi and Jonathan Watkins to leave The Royal Ballet
The role of a Ballet Pianist: What it takes to accompany The Royal Ballet
Outlook: Blind and partially sighted people get up close with the ROH Orchestra
Supporters' Tale: Eugene Onegin
Q&A: Royal Ballet Principal Roberta Marquez
BAFTA awards 2013 held at Royal Opera House
Accessible Arias: 'Va pensiero' from Nabucco
Operatic Dead Ends
Royal Opera House heads to Brazil
Your Reaction: Ashton Mixed Programme
Cast change: Yuhui Choe and Alexander Campbell to dance in Voices of Spring on 21 February
Nominations announced for Opera Awards
Cast change: Rupert Pennefather to dance in 'Meditation' from Thaïs on 15 February
Q&A: Roberta Marquez
Watch: Alexei Ratmansky and Christopher Wheeldon in rehearsal
'One really was the clay': What it was like being in the studio with Frederick Ashton.
Watch: Director John Fulljames on The Firework-Maker's Daughter
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Blog from Brazil #1: Can ballet improve children's lives?
What are the most difficult languages to sing in?
Your reaction: Tamara Rojo's final performance with The Royal Ballet
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Secrecy, or more specifically the use of secret companies incorporated in offshore jurisdictions, undermines money laundering investigations and leaves the door open for corrupt wealth – stolen from around the world – to be invested in high-end UK property.
Secrecy, or more specifically the use of secret companies incorporated in offshore jurisdictions, undermines money laundering investigations and leaves the door open for corrupt wealth – stolen from around the world – to be invested in high-end UK property.
Luxurious properties in the UK provide a much-sought after badge of wealth and respectability, and represent a very safe bet for the corrupt from around the world. The high prices of the London housing market do not discourage money launderers; on the contrary, they represent an opportunity. The higher the prices, the more money can be laundered through it.
Our research 'Corruption on your doorstep – How corrupt capital is used to buy property in the UK' provides a detailed review of money laundering risks associated to the proceeds of corruption in the UK property market.
We find that UK property is attractive to those seeking to launder the proceeds of grand corruption from around the world. Indeed over £180m worth of properties in UK have been brought under criminal investigation as the suspected proceeds of international corruption since 2004.
Law enforcement recognise that this is likely only to be the tip of the iceberg of the true scale of proceeds of corruption invested in UK property.
The UN Office on Drugs and Crime estimated in 2012 that typical law enforcement detection levels for money laundering stand at around 1%. More recently in the UK the Public Accounts Committee found that the UK was only confiscating 26 pence out of every £100 of identified criminal gains.
So why is it so difficult to identify money laundering and prevent it?
Well the answer is that the private sector should be the first line of defence in detecting money laundering. Money laundering regulations require professionals across a range of sectors in the private sector to identify suspicious activity by establishing the true owner – the beneficial owner – of assets. Those professionals – in estate agencies law and finance – should investigate whether there are any grounds for concern about illegitimate sources of wealth.
In property, the problem of the private sector failing to report suspicions is particularly acute. According to the latest figures which cover October 2013 to September 2014, estate agents contributed to only 0.05% of all Suspicious Activity Reports (SARs) submitted. This figure does not match the risks posed by money launderers to the UK property market
Money launderers can easily create offshore companies to hold wealth and assets and provide secrecy for the beneficial owners.
Our research showed the scale of use of offshore secrecy in property under criminal investigation for grand corruption and the broader footprint of offshore secrecy in the UK property market.
Over 75% of the UK properties under criminal investigation for grand corruption use offshore corporate secrecy. For all criminal investigations analysed, every property that made use of a foreign company to hold property used a company from an offshore secrecy jurisdiction, rather than a major economy.
As of July 2014, across the England and Wales, at least £122bn worth of property was held by companies registered in secrecy jurisdictions. Out of 91248 foreign company-owned properties in England and Wales, nearly two thirds are held via the British Virgin Islands and Channel Island structures.
London by far dominates the footprint of offshore company holding of properties in the Land Registry data.
In total 36342 London properties totalling 2.25 sq miles are held by offshore companies. Of these, 38% in the British Virgin Islands, 16% in Jersey, 9.5% in Isle of Man, and 9% in Guernsey. Almost one in ten properties in the City of Westminster (9.3 per cent), 7.3 per cent of properties in Kensington & Chelsea and 4.5 per cent in the City of London are owned by a company registered in an offshore secrecy jurisdiction.
It's is clear from the data that offshore ownership of property is relatively common particularly in London. This offshore ownership effectively prevents money laundering checks by the private sector.
What's more, our data shows that companies incorporated in British Overseas Territories and Crown Dependencies rather than US secrecy jurisdictions like Delaware, are the preferred method of concealment for those under UK criminal investigation for grand corruption.
These vulnerabilities are damaging for the UK given the huge scale of the investments coming into UK and London property. The UK attracts the greatest foreign investment volumes among all European real estate markets, securing an estimated £24bn just in the first half of 2014. According to a 2013 Savills report, 90% of new-build luxury properties were purchased by overseas buyers, with investors from Eastern Europe and Russia, the Middle East and North Africa, and China taking the lions share.
However, we believe that the UK doesn't have to wait for legislation to require greater company transparency in the offshore territories. TI-UK believes that any foreign company intending to hold a property title in the UK should be held to the same standards of transparency required of UK-registered companies. The UK has taken very positive steps forward to legislate to establish a public register of beneficial ownership of companies. It is important to level the playing field and close the loophole of offshore companies that invest in UK assets, including property.
It is time to unmask secret offshore companies that own so much property in the UK.
To access the campaign microsite click here
To read and download the report click here
To call on UK political party leaders establish transparency over who owns the companies that own so much property in the UK click here
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The book has been on my TBR list; especially since I enjoys eat pray love.
You have further piqued my curiousity with the excerpt 🙂
I have read her Eat Pray Love and really enjoyed the book but this I will have to check out.
I have the book but am yet to read it 🙂 Thanks for reminding me.
I love this line…My tattoos are permanent; it's just my body that's temporary! So much in so little words…
As much as I love that phrase, 'the body that is temporary' and subscribe to it, I could never get a tattoo 😀 Scared witless about needles! I do like the premise of the book though and am adding it to my TBR!


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Client Based Keyword Research: How to Grow Plants Up a WallBlog Post: April 25, 2010
A basic principle in marketing is sell benefits not features.
You are not selling state of the art break pads, you are selling
safety. The lives of the customers' children are at stake.
When creating copy, it pays to ask better questions.
There is a story about a famous copywriter who was
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This applies to search because people search to solve a problem or
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I happen to be a certified handwriting analyst. I know that
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Most of us pride ourselves on our individuality – some of us even revel in being the black sheep of the flock. One of the many ways we show off our uniqueness is our choice in food – specifically, frozen sweets.
But how do all the varieties breakdown and is there a real winner? Uniqueness is great and all, but being the best is even better. So, let's dig in and find out.
Here's the scoop:
Round 1: Gelato vs. Ice Cream
First we have a sweet Italian contribution to the American way.
The word "gelato" means ice in Italian, and it's the only kind of ice cream they actually have there. In other words, don't go in asking for ice cream if you're not ready for this Italian delicacy (although, it wouldn't be the worst mix-up in the world.)
Compared to our ice cream, gelato is more parts milk than actual cream – which actually makes it slightly healthier. The way it's actually made is also different because its churning is much slower and more steady than the process for making ice cream. Speedy churning ends up adding a lot of air into the mix, making it fluffy.
Gelato, on the other hand is incredibly dense and flavor-full, offering an explosion of fruitiness on the first bite. Gelato also has twice the sugar, making it irresistibly sweet. All of this means that gelato must be served at a slightly higher temperature than other frozen treats, otherwise it will be way too hard to consume safely.
Round 2: Frozen Yogurt vs. Gelato
Here's where some folks get confused. Yes, they are two completely different desserts!
Frozen yogurt is so-called because the main ingredient is cultured milk, which is filled with healthy bacteria and used as the dairy base. The health benefit of the bacteria, however, is neutralized when you factor in the fact that the whole "freezing" part kills them off, but there's always other ways (like actual yogurt) to get a good probiotic boost.
Frozen yogurt, or "froyo" as it's become colloquially known, is extremely popular – especially among younger generations. Where dating adults go get coffee, teenagers get froyo. Over the last several years, frozen yogurt shops have popped up in every single mall or shopping center in the West -and it's not without reason.
Froyo goes well with just about anything. These shops let you choose any topping from chocolate chips to gummy worms and even marshmallows. You could say it's their je ne sais quoi.
The Verdict
Between Ice Cream, Gelato and Frozen Yogurt – the competition is fierce.
From a calorie standpoint, gelato takes last place. It's increased sugar and density isn't the greatest for those trying to watch their weight – but the milk is definitely better than the cream. All in all a delicious treat.
Ice cream has the least surgar, but it has the most saturated fat. Froyo is in the middle of both in these categories.
But of course, it's not always about the health factor. Sometimes you just want a treat – so go for what tastes best. But whether you're a Gelato Groupie, a Froyo Fanatic, or an Ice Cream Addict, rest easy knowing you're doing life right one scoop at a time.
Next time when you were looking for a new Froyo place or just somewhere to hangout in The Colony Texas, checkout URBAN8 and be ready for surprises.


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When HTC started their HTC Dev site and put one of the best tech evangelists Bruce Jones on the team we knew they were getting serious about the developer community.
Within the past several months we've seen HTC stick to the words of Peter Chou who vowed to be more open with developers, release devices with unlocked bootloaders and source codes via their website. All of that has happened.
This week HTC has released the source code for some of their newest and most popular devices including the HTC Rezound, HTC Amaze 4G, HTC Explorer and HTC Desire S. With the availability of the source code developers can create awesome themes, wallpapers and ROM's galore. With the holidays coming up their should be some more time for those developers to get to work.
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Yiwu Taxi Fuel Surcharges Rise to 3 RMB – Yiwu News –
Yiwu Taxi Fuel Surcharges Rise to 3 RMBMar 29, 2012 eChinacities.comComments 0 Add your commentIf youve noticed that Yiwus taxi drivers have been charging more than usual, the reason is most likely the fuel surcharge which was introduced late last month. The standard fuel surcharge has now risen to 3 RMB bringing it to the same level
March 25 from Yiwu airport flight times have changed – Yiwu News today Yiwu
Yiwu airport flight times are changed from March 25 Yiwu News Network original news 2012-3-26 9:19:12 font size: | Print | Close Benwang March 25, the Civil Aviation started the 2012 summer and autumn flight schedule, Yiwu Airport flights are subject to change. Add Yiwu – Urumqi direct flight to the process at 10:00
New Shantou-Yiwu-Urumqi Flight Route Opening soon – Yiwu News – Yiwu City in Pulse
New Shantou-Yiwu-Urumqi Flight Route Opening soon A new Shantou-Yiwu-Urumqi flight route is scheduled to open on April 6th. The flight route will operate every Monday, Wednesday and Friday, departing from Shantou at 08:00, arriving in Yiwu at 09:20, departing from Yiwu at 10:00 and arriving in Urumqi at 15:20. The return flight will depart
The worlds largest trading post… Yiwu, China
Great weekend for a change. The weather was warm, sometimes sunny, little rain etc… Friday I took the riders to the Buddhist temple which is on the other side of the Qaintang River, then halfway up a distant mountain. Actually the mountain's base is in a ghetto so we drag our bikes halfway
Yiwu's daily floating population is above 200,000,boost the development of hotel industry.There are thousands of hotels distributing at the downtown.And among them there are 3 hotels under five-stars standard,9 hotels under four-stars standard and 11 hotels under three-stars standard. Yiwu Tian heng hotel ☆☆☆☆☆TianHeng Hotel is founded according to five-stars standard and furnished with the


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Sleep we all need it in our lives but some people suffer from lack of sleep deprivation and it effects their daily routine and social life.There are a lot of studies showing the negatives of lack of sleep and how it can hurt the body but with every negative there can be a positive outcome towards sleep deprivation but what is the positive towards no sleep. Well here are just some of them for one. You get to reset your biological clock to zero and if you stay up the following day when night falls you reset you bio clock and get a longer more peaceful sleep the next night
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Community Building
A community implies a collection of people with varied interests. Specialized areas of interest for like-minded Christians become centered in clubs and groups within the framework of Ascension's community. See the General Directory link in the left column for contact persons for each group.
Men's Club
The Men's Club has been active at Ascension for almost 50 years. The Club has dedicated itself to serving and supporting a variety of parish and community needs through contributions of money, talent and labor. To this end, the Club conducts a variety of annual Dinners and special events. The Men's Club meets on the second Friday of each month beginning with a meal prepared by members, meeting briefly for business, and ending the evening with games and camaraderie. There is plenty of room for new members. If you enjoy friendship, fun and helping others, the Men's Club is for you. All are welcome to attend and join the Club.
The Handcrafters create unique items to raise funds for donation to many worthwhile causes. Substantial funds are raised and distributed each year. The Handcrafters' primary fundraising event is the annual Boutique, which is held the first week-end in November each year. The group works all year to create items for gifts, home decoration, and personal use to sell. The Handcrafters meet every Wednesday morning from 9:30 to 11:30 AM. Anyone is invited to join - they will even teach you to sew, crochet or paint!
Welcome Coffee Committee
The Welcome Coffee Committee arranges for serving coffee, juice and doughnuts after the 9 and 11 am Masses on Sunday. The purpose of the welcome coffees is to encourage fellowship and build community. Each week's coffee is sponsored by a different Ascension group thereby allowing the parish community to become aware of the many active groups within our parish.
Couples Bridge
Couples Bridge at Ascension is a social club for those couples who enjoy playing party bridge. In August of each year, a schedule of play is planned for groups of four couples to meet at the home of the host couple once a month, September through May. Small cash prizes are awarded to the couples with the best monthly results, and for the best year-end total scores. New couples are always welcome.
Ladies Bridge
Ladies Bridge at Ascension Parish has existed about as long as the parish. There are six tables of play and 24 people. Play is on the first Wednesday of the month from September through June. New members are always welcome to join. Funds from monthly collected dues have often been given to volunteer organizations.


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It was such a lovely morning, the sun was shining and there was a great Autumn feel, crispy leaves, trickling streams and bright berries on the trees.
The roast is prepped so it's time for a few ciders to finish the weekend nicely.
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'Those people' in this case being 'wing nut gun owners' according to MAIG. From an email sent to anti-gun advocates in Georgia:
We have monitored the gun groups' blogs and are certain there will be some protesters present. The Sheriff's Dept and Capitol Police will be keeping us safe, and at other stops where, the "wing nuts" were present, they were fairly passive and knew their place.Isn't that special? I wonder if she was also paid using some city's tax dollars? I also wonder if, in between her calls for armed men to protect her from armed me, if she would tell us exactly where our 'place' is?
While waiting for that answer, we'll just keep waiting for the bus to eventually show.
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Jharra Healing From Babaji eBook digital download (JHEBOOK)Jharra Healing From Babaji
Jharra is a healing technique in which the practitioner repeats a Mantra while sweeping peacock feathers over a person's body, thereby clearing out dis-harmony and allowing the natural harmony to preside. With each sweep, the mantra is repeated.
This eBook gives an excellent explanation of Jharra Healing and offers the opportunity to better understand the Jharra Balancing Technique Course offered here and which is part of the Haidakhandi Spiritual Practices Series.
Quote from Babaji:20 JANUARY 1984"All of you must learn spiritual healing - jhara-phunka - and make spiritual healing centers. By that means, many people in the world will get peace and happiness."
Still Singing Somehow by Rob Rideout (free download) ()Prologue from this fascinating book:This book was inspired in prison. I wanted my son, long estranged due to divorce, to know the entire story; the why and the how that brought me to this place. In the process of writing, I discovered that I was really writing it for myself-to purge and forgive myself for the life I created. Sadly, my own compulsions sabotaged much of my life, allowing me to wallow in self-absorption and self-pity. Through years of laboring in rewrites, I have reviewed my life many times- maybe too many. The result has been a tremendous healing.My story is one of fall and redemption, of heaven and hell. It's about the pain of loss and the cop-out path I pursued for so long. If you're looking for something better than what you've seen on TV or already read, you might or might not find it here. But remember, the truth is always stranger than fiction. I couldn't have thought this story up in my wildest imagination. Hopefully, anybody suffering from alcoholism or an overactive ego may find a ray of hope here. However, this book is without a hook; an inspirational memoir whose title alone will have to suffice.My lifelong dream has always been to pursue a lifestyle of truth, simplicity and love. The road to that goal hasn't been easy, and I realize that I paved it all myself. I had to lose everything to gain a freedom I never dreamed possible, but it was worth it, every step of the way. Many names in this journey have been changed to protect the innocent.
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The Teachings of Babaji (free download - English or Spanish) (TTOBF)This free download, The Teachings of Babaji, includes:All of "The Teachings of Babaji" in English from July 26, 1979 through February 5, 1984
All of "The Teachings of Babaji" in Spanish from July 26, 1979 through February 5, 1984
Haidakkhandi Arati - text (free download) (HAFD)The Haidakhandi Arati zip file includes:
Haidakhandi Arati in English translation
Haidakhandi Arati in transliterated Sanskrit
Haidakhandeshwari Sapta Sati (700 Verses to Divine Mother of Haidakhan) (free download) (SSFD)Haidakhandeshwari Sapta Sati (700 Verses to Divine Mother of Haidakhan)
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Kalbhairav Stotra (free download) (KSFD)This Kalbhairav Stotra zip file includes:The Kalbhairav Stotra in transliterated Sanskrit and English translation.
The Devi Mahatmyam (free download) (TDMFD)The Devi Mahatmyam zip file includes the complete text in transliterated Sanskrit with English translation.The Devi Mahatmyam or Devi Mahatmya ("Glory of the Goddess") is a Hindu religious text describing the victory of the Goddess Durga over the demon Mahishasura. As part of the Markandeya Purana, it is one of the Puranas or secondary Hindu scriptures. It was composed in Sanskrit around 400–500 CE, with authorship attributed to the sage (Rishi) Markandeya.
Om Namah Shivaya Chant (ONSHS)Om Namah Shivay By The Haidakhandi Singers (digital download) - 5 minute running timeThis is a digital product and will be available for immediate download after your successful PayPal payment (PayPal account not required). You will then have access to the download in your account under downloads. This will allow you to download the zip file containing all the tracks.Om Namah Shivay - Sample may be found below.OM NAMAH SHIVAY is the great original MahaMantra a shorter and stronger version of the four Vedas central Mantra.OM: Contains the words and symbols of all the Lord and Divine Mother aspects and of the Absolute, which imbues every existence.NAMAH SHIVAY: symbolizes the five elements which compose the creation: water, air, fire, earth and ether. Om Namah Shivay is a medication for the spirit - it is the water which purifies the heart. Chanting Om Namah Shiva helps to channel all the energy flowing through our body.Shri Babaji has commented on kirtan singing, saying: "Kirtan should come to you naturally, through your soul... You should sing devotional music in a way, that stirs the heart, in harmony and with a slow rhythm. Whenever you make music, singing or playing, it should leave a memory on the mind."The mantra OM NAMAH SHIVAY is the main mantra used in the chanting, and Shri Babaji has enjoined his devotees to : "Always repeat God's name. Whatever you do, wherever you are, repeat the name of the Lord... OM NAMAH SHIVAYA is the original mantra. It is like nectar, feed everyone with this nectar... When Mahashakti, the Primordial energy, first manifested, the words she uttered was the mantra OM NAMAH SHIVAY." Repeating, or chanting this mantra will lead to total union with God. This is Babaji's promise.JAI MAHA MAYA KI JAI!!!Brief sample:
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The Teachings Of Babaji - An Enhanced Version (MOBI & PDF) ()The Teachings Of Babaji - An Enhanced Version (MOBI & PDF)
This eBook is an enhanced version of The Teachings of Babaji. In addition to the preserved talks that were either transcribed during the time the talk was given or recorded and transcribed at a later time, we include many pages of quotes by Shri Babaji on a variety of subjects - usually themes that He revisited regularly during these talks and were also incorporated in His messages, plus we include a Glossary of Terms for those who wish it. We have also included dozens of pictures throughout the eBook.This publication is over 200 pages in length. It is a work of Love by Karma Yogis and Yoginis participating in the intention of spreading awareness of Shri Babaji and His teachings throughout the world - this is in response to the many instances that Babaji Himself had repeated in His communications which you will encounter when reading the teachings.For a limited time we are offering this in two formats with your purchase - one in mobi format (Kindle) and one in PDF.
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Haidakhan Aarati eBook - Transliterated With Instruction (ARTIEBOOK)Haidakhan Arati At Universal Peace Center eBook - Transliterated With Instruction
This eBook provides instruction, transliterated mantras and prayers as well as notations which help understanding the ceremony. This material represents Aarati done to Shri Babaji as done in Herakhan. We also offer Aarati audio files in downloadable and/or CD formats. Using this eBook together with the audio version is very powerful. This eBook is part of the Haidakhandi Spiritual Practices Series.A general description of Aarati:Aarati is a Hindu religious ritual of worship in which light from wicks soaked in ghee (purified butter) or camphor is offered to one or more deities. Aarati also refers to the songs sung in praise of the deity, when lamps are being offered.It is performed during almost all Hindu ceremonies and occasions. It involves the circulating of an "Aarati plate" or "Aarati lamp" around a person or deity and is generally accompanied by the singing of songs in praise of that Deva or person (many versions exist). In doing so, the plate or lamp is supposed to acquire the power of the deity. The priest circulates the plate or lamp to all those present. They cup their down-turned hands over the flame and then raise their palms to their forehead – the purificatory blessing, passed from the Deva's image to the flame, has now been passed to the devotee.The purpose of performing Aarati is the waving of lighted wicks before the Deities in a spirit of humility and gratitude, wherein faithful followers become immersed in God's divine form. It symbolises the five elements:• Ether (akash)• Wind (vayu)• Fire (agni)• Water (jal)• Earth (pruthvi)Add to Cart$8.00
Blessing from Babaji by Jai Shri (Digital) (BLET11-DL)PLEASE NOTE - THIS IS A DIGITAL PRODUCT, it is downloadable immediately after payment.
Blessing from Babaji by Jai Shri 128 pages of messages and artwork, sharing Babaji's Teachings in Action.
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"I offer to Babaji with all of my heart that all sentient beings may be liberated from their suffering in Samsara." - Love J
Immortal BabajiI & His Lilas by K.L. Jand (Digital) (IMME56-DL)This is a digital product, available for immediate download after payment.
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I bow down to my great Sadguru Babaji, by the mere remembrance of whose name one attains spiritual blessings in return and fruition of his devotion.
I feel myself too fortunate despite my paucity (both spiritual and intellectual) I may being bestowed with the honor of handling this task of remodeling the pre-publication "Babaji" by his Holiness Ananta Anant Kailash Guha Behari Kashi Vishwanath Bhagwan. Any errors of omission or commission that may have crept in the said publication are entirely mine and for which I crave the indulgence of readers.
I owe my sincere gratitude to reverend Sri Swami Fakira Nandji who has supplied the entire material data and under whose guidance and grace the publication has attained its completion. Also I cannot hesitate to express my gratitude and regards to my senior codevotee Dr. V.V.S. Rao who is also the back-ground of most indispensable material data and whose very foot-steps I have trodden.
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Shri Babaji has commented on kirtan singing, saying: "Kirtan should come to you naturally, through your soul... You should sing devotional music in a way, that stirs the heart, in harmony and with a slow rhythm. Whenever you make music, singing or playing, it should leave a memory on the mind."
The mantra OM NAMAH SHIVAY is the main mantra used in the chanting, and Shri Babaji has enjoined his devotees to : "Always repeat God's name. Whatever you do, wherever you are, repeat the name of the Lord... OM NAMAH SHIVAYA is the original mantra. It is like nectar, feed everyone with this nectar... When Mahashakti, the Primordial energy, first manifested, the words she uttered was the mantra OM NAMAH SHIVAY." Repeating, or chanting this mantra will lead to total union with God. This is Babaji's promise.
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May Patch Tuesday Analysis
May 10, 2017
Chris Goettl | Director, Product Management, Security | Ivanti
Join us as we recap the Microsoft and third-party security patches released on Patch Tuesday, live from Ivanti Interchange 2017. We will discuss things to watch out for, products to be sure and test adequately, and which patches should be highest priority to roll out.
Chris: Good morning everyone. We have more people trickling into the room, and we have a lot more joining us on the phones, too. I see the numbers are still spiking, but I want to get started and talk a little about the logistics that go into bringing this out.
I run into a lot of our customers, and people really love what we do with this Patch Tuesday Webinar. They always thank me for it, and they tell me how they have some of our graphics up in their Knox or on dashboards throughout the environment. We love to hear that, because a lot of time and effort goes into this presentation each month.
The one thing I want people to know, though, is it's not just me doing it. A lot of very talented people help bring this together in a very short period of time. Yesterday, when the keynote was going on, I had six of them pulled out of the room, and we were in a conference room in a maze of back hallways nobody sees. We went through a bunch of this stuff. One of our creative team, Jared, did a great job of taking all the data Todd and I pulled together and putting it into the graphics we have up on our Patch Tuesday page.
Amber, our product marketing manager for our security team, does a great job of keeping our messaging consistent and does an editorial pass on everything we write to make sure we're grammatically correct. We have Kate, who's right up here, who does a great job of helping us get the word out to get people coming to this webinar. There's a huge number of people who help us pull this together, and I wanted to acknowledge them here this morning and let them know their contributions to this are great.
We have a lot to cover today, and we have to try and get it all done, so I can get you out of here and over to the keynote, because that's more important than me. I'm Chris Goettl. I've been doing this for about five years. I took over the Patch Tuesday Webinar at Ivanti. Todd Schell is here with me today, as well.
Todd: Good morning everyone.
Chris: Todd joined me on doing the Patch Tuesday webinars just last month.
Todd: Last month was my first time.
Chris: He'll be tag-teaming this with me going forward, so I wanted you to meet him. We're going to go through a few things here and talk about some of the big news coming out right now, some of the things happening out there that you're going to want to be aware of. You've probably heard a lot of these headlines already.
We'll go through that, and we'll talk about Patch Tuesday in general. We'll get into the bulletins and talk through each of the updates, what you'll want to know about and challenges you might face. I have the answer to your question, Jim. I saw where that information is, we'll talk about that, as well. And we'll have some time at the end for Q&A.
In the News
Let's start with some of the news going around. The Intel vPro Vulnerability. You have probably all heard about this. There are some significant challenges with it. It's not a software level of vulnerability, it's a hardware level, so how you distribute this is a little different. Things to know about this are Intel may have identified the issue and may have released a fix to the OEMs. The OEMs are still working on that. I've talked to a few of them, and they're trying to sort things out and figure out what they're going to do, how they're going to respond to it, and when the updates are going to come out.
Something to keep in mind about this is, if these AMT services are active, it is a remotely exploitable vulnerability that lets an attacker do bad things very, very silently to your system. It is a threat. Disabling the AMT service will limit exposure from remote to local only, so that significantly reduces your risk. Ivanti created a deployment package that can help push a configuration out to disable those services. If you're interested in that, we have information about how you can do that. This would disable the AMT service, so if you are utilizing it, you would be disabling it until those OEM vendors like HP, Dell, and Lenovo start to release driver updates and make them available to you for each of the platforms.
This vulnerability goes back many, many years. I believe the counter's around 10-ish years, so it's not something we can expect them to fix in every piece of hardware going back that many years. There might be some challenges after these updates come out, we have to wait and see what they do, but if they only go back three years or five years and you have seven-year-old hardware, you're still left partially exposed. You might have to do a combination of updates from vendors and some mitigation options like the package we've created.
As those developments move forward, as we find out more details, we'll try to share that information as quickly as possible to help you understand what you're going to need to do to eliminate risk where you can and to mitigate risk where they're not going to provide an update. There are some different challenges with that one, and it's still developing.
Microsoft News
A few things from the Microsoft side: we have the vulnerable malware protection engine. This one got announced the day before Patch Tuesday, so Monday. A researcher over at the Google team found a vulnerability that could allow this engine to be exploited by a remote code execution by crafting a special file and letting the engine scan it. You don't even have to open the attachment in an email and this could potentially be exploited. It sounds pretty scary.
The researcher dubbed this thing crazy bad. He said it was one of the worst things he'd seen in a long time. When Microsoft announced their advisory, they announced it would automatically update in the defender engine within 48 hours, typically, depending on how frequently your updates are received. Within 48 hours of that fix going out, your system should get that change automatically through the content update.
When I read up on this, Microsoft positioned it as not as bad as the researcher did. If you're familiar with their exploitability index, they listed this as a two, which means it lets me do some bad things, but it's not extremely bad. It's hard to tell based on the original researcher versus Microsoft's take on it, what it really is. If you are using Defender, there is a KB article on how to force that to update sooner, if you want to force that update to make sure it's there. There are also ways to tell what version you're at to confirm you are at a version that is protected. There are more details on the advisory on Microsoft's site.
The other piece of news for Microsoft is the Kaby Lake processor change. You have probably heard about this, as well. I've had several conversations this week about that already. Anybody who is purchasing hardware that has the Kaby Lake processor―I believe laptops last fall and desktops starting at the beginning of this year―moving forward, if you put anything older than Windows 10 on that hardware, you will not be able to update those systems as of April. They push out a change to the update service that breaks updates on that system for Microsoft updates. This is going to present a challenge. It's one more way Microsoft is forcing us onto Windows 10 with very little choice. For those of you running older operating systems, especially our healthcare customers and a few others, it's a real challenge to try to get everybody over to Windows 10.
I had a conversation with one of our customers this week who said HP honors a one-year timeframe for older hardware when new hardware comes out, so you can continue to get a consistent baseline while you're testing new hardware. I heard a report from him that at least some OEM vendors are already running out of some of that older hardware. Some companies went into panic mode and bought thousands of units of older hardware. If you're concerned about that, I recommend reaching out to your vendor earlier rather than later to see what the concerns are and maybe buy a few extra devices to have on hand as those diminish. That is going to be a challenge going forward. Those Windows updates can block any OS and Microsoft application updates since that change went to effect.
There is a workaround, we'll call it, a way to get around this that's already distributed on GitHub. It's an interesting take on it. We're not saying, "Go for it." We're also not saying, "Shy away from it." It's your choice on whether to do that or not. The challenge if you do, though, is if you're running a Windows 7 machine on a Kaby Lake processor and you have an incident, when you go to Microsoft, they'll say, "Sorry guys. Upgrade to Windows 10, and then we'll talk."
There's another challenge, too. If you go that route and then push patches out through one of our solutions, you would push out those updates. Each time you do, each month, you would have to redo the workaround because each update is cumulative and will put that change back into effect. So it's going to be a fun situation, and I'm sure there will be more news coming down the road about that. Those are the things from Microsoft.
Google News
Another one that's been circulating quite a bit is the Google phishing scam that went down. I know a lot of you have seen this one. We talk a lot about phishing, the way that goes down, how easy it is to convince somebody to do it. Reportedly, there are already a million Google users affected by this. By "affected," I mean actually clicked on it and were exploited. That's the latest global number of people impacted I read, as of a few days ago. A million people in a very short time. This just came out last week. That's how easy and scary phishing scams can be. This one is interesting. It's not exploiting a vulnerability in software, it's exploiting a user and taking advantage of how we share documents. This is one of those situations where it's important not to stop at any single security control. If you attended any of our security track sessions this week, or if you attended the State of the Union yesterday, you've heard this already. A layered approach is what you need. These types of things are why. You need to patch because it's going to reduce that surface area. You need to educate your users to make sure fewer of them are duped into things like this. The more healthy paranoia your users have, the less these types of things can affect you. There are other things like educating people on things like two-factor authentication. That's a way where, if attackers exploited this, they couldn't continue to use it because they would've needed your two-factor. This is definitely a real threat, but two-factor authentication and education are two ways you can reduce the risk of this type of thing impacting your users.
Microsoft Changes Update Releases
The last change I'll talk about, and this came around last month. Microsoft made a significant change. They stopped using their bulletin model for how they release their updates. It kind of breaks down from a user perspective, however. The bulletin gave us a few very necessary things. It gave us a hierarchy, a way to organize things, so we can find things quickly and easily. I'm not hooked up to a machine where I can demo how that worked, but last month on the webinar, somebody asked me a great question, and I was able to go in and show why that hierarchy was necessary. A few quick searches and I found exactly the update they were asking me a question about and could give them the specific answer they needed.
If I'd had to find it by a KB number, it would've been a much harder search. I might've had to search for several of them because some things have 10, 12, even 20 KBs in one bulletin. Something Ivanti has done―and we're always trying to bring additional value. We're not here only to support an update from a vendor, we do it in a way that helps you be more effective―so we've continued what we're calling our artificial Microsoft bulletins. We have a KB article on the Ivanti community that helps you identify how these translate. As we switch that engine into some of our other products, you'll see this more and more. By that count, we're saying there were 13 Microsoft bulletins this month, distinct variations of an update package that would be deployed to a machine. We'll talk about those. Ten of them were Critical, two were Important, and 11 had user-targeted vulnerabilities, which are vulnerabilities you could utilize in a phishing scam.
Adobe News
Adobe had one update, which was Flash Player. It was critical. Seven vulnerabilities were resolved there, and it also has user-targeted vulnerabilities. Then we had PDF-Xchange. This one happened to come out on Patch Tuesday. They didn't have anything security related in their announcement.
Google did an update yesterday, as well. We weren't expecting that because they did a security update not too long ago, just last week. This one was out of the blue and looked a little odd. It didn't have much documentation with it from a security perspective, so we're watching that one to see if they bring in any CVEs or anything else on it. There was one comment on it last night when I was taking a look at it, which noted this release came out but doesn't look like it supports the latest Flash plugin yet. I'm wondering if they were trying to do that, it released, and something went wrong. Maybe it didn't support the plugin correctly or they have something left to do. We'll watch for that one, but watch for the Chrome update because you might want that to make sure you get all the Flash plugins updated on your system.
I've talked enough, Todd, so I'm going to hand it over to you now, and we'll go into each of the bulletins.
Todd: Okay, Chris, thanks. When we started this gig last month, you didn't tell me we were taking the show immediately to Vegas.
Chris: I've actually done this from England twice. This is my second time doing it from Vegas, but last time I was in my hotel room. This is the first time in five years I've done this in front of a live audience.
Todd: We actually had to get dressed, usually it's a t-shirt and shorts and stuff.
Chris: I was telling some of our team I have a t-shirt I usually wear when I do this. It's an '80s retro t-shirt. It has the Mario Brothers Bob-omb on it, and it says, "I'm the bomb." It mentally sets my frame of mind for this, but I had to dress the part today.
Todd: Cool. Let's dig into the bulletins a little as we go through the second part of the presentation. We've made some changes since last month. We're still learning how best to name these bulletins, so in this month's content release, you'll see we've changed it up. We have the date and month in the middle, and then we have the name for what that particular bulletin addresses, the applications of the operating systems, etc. You'll see that as we go through some of the changes today.
As Chris mentioned, one of the first bulletins has to do with our usual update of Adobe Flash Player. Microsoft rolled this in for all of their operating systems, and as Chris mentioned, there are seven vulnerabilities addressed in this release.
Security Updates
Second in our bulletins is our security update for Internet Explorer. It addresses versions 9, 10, and 11 of Internet Explorer. An interesting note here, I copied Microsoft's quote directly from their bulletin regarding how they're doing this. They say you should update your operating systems now and use this cumulative update for Internet Explorer. Last night, Chris and I were in Chat arguing about this. I said, "No, this is the way Microsoft says you do it." He said, "Well, I've been doing this and they're actually including the Internet updates directly in their regular security-only and their cumulative updates, as well."
Chris: Yeah, this one's kind of a funny one. You have two choices on the pre-Windows 10 platforms. You can do the security-only, which is a bundle of all the security updates for the month for the OS. If you choose that option, you have to do the IE update also. Or there's the monthly quality rollup. If you choose that one, it's the rollup of OS, IE, all the nonsecurities, and the securities from the month before, so it's the cumulative one. Their documentation last night definitely conflicts with how that works, so I deployed the monthly rollup package for several machines. I then went back and did the reassessment, and the IE did not apply, it was already taken care of, which confirmed there are documentation errors.
Todd: I've highlighted two of the vulnerabilities down below. The first one, 64, is a disclosed vulnerability but not an exploited one. This vulnerability allows an unsecured browser to access secure data over to an HTTPS site, so it's an important one. Once again, it's disclosed but not yet exploited. The second one is an exploited vulnerability, and this is a memory corruption issue that allows remote code execution. We call that out on the bulletin as the worst case from an impact standpoint.
Moving on to Microsoft Office: There were a lot of Office releases this month that covered a range of full Office packages from 2007 to 2016 to individual updates for applications like Word, PowerPoint, and others. There's an interesting vulnerability here, number 261. This is an exploited vulnerability that has to do with the way graphics handling is done, particularly in Word applications. For example, you can take an EPS file and capsulate a postscript file and embed command code in there, and this vulnerability allows you to run that through the system. Interestingly enough, this isn't a Web browser problem. The browsers pulling down those graphics will not try to execute. It's in the Microsoft application itself, so important to note on that one.
Next up is our Windows 10 cumulative update, and it addresses lots of vulnerabilities this month. There were 42 altogether. There are two I want to call out in particular of the highlighted batch. These are both only disclosed, we're not seeing them exploited out in the wild yet. The first one, 229, has to do with JavaScript handling engine resulting in memory corruption and objects and memory being executed. That's only disclosed, not exploited.
The second one is 241. This is a Microsoft Edge browser problem. It's a security-bypass vulnerability. If you can get a user to go to a nondomain page and open it, with some special code, the attacker can modify the URL so your Intranet zone web pages can be accessed. You should be aware of that one. It's not exploited yet, it's only disclosed. Two important points on Windows 10.
Chris: Microsoft resolved 56 vulnerabilities this month. If you're on Windows 10, 42 of them are in the update you're going to apply. With this update model, they're pulling more and more into a single package, and that's a lot of vulnerabilities all in one place. You'll definitely need to get those rolled out.
Todd: Next up is Server 2008. A large number of vulnerabilities have been fixed there. An important one here is 263. It's a vulnerability that's been around for quite sometime. It's only a problem in 32-bit systems, but you'll see it across almost all of our bulletins, because there are aspects of each running on older systems. This vulnerability can result in a lot of problems. We've included the full range from remote code execution all the way through information disclosure from an impact perspective.
Next up, we have our security-only update for Windows 7 and Server 2008 R2. Once again, there are a number of changes they've made and security aspects they've fixed. There are 27 vulnerabilities. The only one from an exploited standpoint is 263. You'll see that covered on our infographic through each of these.
Chris: This is one of the first of that security-only bundle I talked about. If you're deploying this version, you need to do this and the IE update to get all the updates or all the vulnerabilities across that platform.
Todd: One important thing to keep in mind, I took a look at all the bulletins, and as far as Known Issues, the only thing that applies across Windows 7 and Windows 8 had to do with the AMD Carrizo DDR4 processor. If you download these onto systems using those processors, it allows you to download an update this time, but you can't download updates in the future. Microsoft's working on that, but that's something to be aware of in Known Issues.
Chris: That's part of what they were doing to try to stop the Kaby Lake systems from doing that. They accidentally pulled in a few other things at the same time, so they're working on that.
Todd: Next up is the security update for Server 2012. Remember that last month we dropped Vista and things like that, but 2012 continues to live. Once again, a common set of vulnerabilities for this operating system. We dropped a few from Windows 7 and Windows 8, but there are 24 vulnerabilities, and we see that old one for the Windows 32 system.
The last of our security-only updates is for Windows 8.1 and Server 2012 R2. Once again, addressing that code kernel, we're down to 23 vulnerabilities, with that win32 allowing for remote-code execution. They addressed a common set of vulnerabilities across a lot of these operating systems this month.
Monthly Rollups
The first of our monthly rollups is for Windows 7 and 2008 R2. I've referenced the cumulative bulletin this builds on from last month. They've taken 4015552, added all the updates this month, and rolled out this new cumulative bulletin. You can see this is based on a single new bulletin that fixes 23 vulnerabilities, two of which have been exploited. That one is only a disclosure.
Next up is the monthly rollup for Server 2012, the same kind of thing. They've combined all the updates from last month. These things are getting big, right Chris?
Chris: Yes, the cumulatives are definitely growing. We talked about this with Windows 10 especially. The Windows 10 update for the 1607 is over a gig. I was updating my personal system yesterday, and luckily I got the Delta, which is only half that size, 500 meg, so that was great.
Todd: Moving on to the rollup for 8.1 and 2012 R2. This is the approach we've taken with our bulletins. We're taking them from an operating system perspective and combining them, so you can quickly look up bulletins by operating system. You can always drill down into the CVE list, as well, to find what you're looking for. There are 29 vulnerabilities across this group. We rolled-in the IE update, as well, so it includes those fixes.
This is the release on Adobe's Flash Player, their private bulletin APS B17-15, which the Microsoft release is based on. It has the same seven vulnerabilities. This fix for Flash Player covers not only the Windows operating system but also the Mac, UNIX, and Chrome OS. It stretches across all those OSs.
Chris: One of the things about Flash Player is you have to do Flash Player at the OS level. If you use the browser plugin for Chrome, IE, or Firefox, you need to get all those in place to patch that system fully. I've had systems where I've had each of the browsers and each of the plugins, so I've had four Flash updates every month. Don't be surprised if you see it a few times.
Todd: Dropping down in priority, this month we have two of our Microsoft.NET updates. One is our security-only update, which is targeted at individual operating systems. I haven't listed them here, but there are four bulletins for each of these. On the security-only side, you'll see I have sub-bulletins listed. We include the bulletin number in the title, so you can find the one you're looking for. There is a minor issue in this release, which is a security feature bypass they've fixed. It's not a privilege escalation problem, so it keeps you at the same privilege level. It does fix this one vulnerability, which is the only vulnerability addressed by the .NET update this month.
On the monthly rollup side, these are cumulative patches for .NET, just like they're doing for the operating systems. We have four patches, and you can see the bulletin numbers there. It includes the updates from the previous month.
There are a couple of things we rolled out this month. The PDF-Xchange issue from transfer was only a software update that happened to get rolled into our monthly update. There really aren't any security implications. Chris mentioned Google Chrome. I grabbed this information from the release we did late last night. We got bulletin Chrome-195, it's for release 58, and the .110 on the end. This came out of their main channel, and as Chris said, it was surprising they released so soon after releasing only a week or two ago.
Chris: One of the things we try to talk about on this webinar is prioritizing your time and effort. This month is kind of a brutal one. If you look at everything that released, aside from the two that didn't carry anything security related, .NET's the only one that wasn't Critical and didn't carry a Zero-Day or a public disclosure, so do them all as soon as possible. Yes, it's a brutal one this month. IE had a Zero Day, Office had a Zero Day, and there was the Windows Zero Day. All of those packages have a Zero Day in them. The challenge we're facing this month is everything's a priority. And I think that wraps up the presentation.
Todd: If you have any questions―we're going to do a combination. We have people online, and I have a team who will come around with microphones, so we'll take a combination of questions. Yes, go ahead.
Domingo: All right, thank you. Domingo Thomas [SP] from Garner. I have a quick question on Chrome. We have been having a lot of challenges with the Chrome plugin for Flash. It's been there for a couple of months. You mentioned they might have changed something in this update that allows the plugin to update?
Chris: They've had some differences over the years. They've had cases where the Chrome update was required before you could update the Flash plugin, and there were periods of time where it could be updated independent of Chrome having to be updated. I saw a comment on that Chrome update last night saying, "It doesn't look like I can get the latest Flash Player update yet." My guess is they pushed that update out, and they have something else coming. In the next day or two, I would expect that Chrome will support the latest plugin. Why it wasn't there yet, I'm not really sure.
While we're on the topic of Chrome, they did a security release just last week. If you don't do weekly or biweekly patching, make sure this Chrome update is in place. By updating this one, you're getting the security fixes that came out in the last one, as well. I think what happened here is they probably had a two-step process where the release last night was preparing it so Chrome can take the latest Flash, and they still have to push that. I'm kind of suspicious about why they didn't do it right away, but I think there's something still to come to handle that part.
All right. Do we have another question back there? Go ahead.
Ed: Good morning. Ed Nelson, 3M. I have a similar question along the lines of Chrome. Historically, one of the beauties of Chrome was that Flash was baked in, and it would update every time Chrome updated. Maybe I missed something in the last few months because I've started seeing the new plugins, but I want to know why it's now separated and can be patched separately outside of the Chrome patch. What is Google doing, or Adobe? What has caused the separation for the baked-in Flash within Chrome to now be patched separately?
Chris: This is something that's gone back and forth over the years. I said earlier that it's not just me who does a lot of this stuff. I have a team of people all over the place who help, and our content guys up in Minnesota do a great job of researching these things as they happen. This question has come up several times over the past five years. Things like, "Hey, it looks like Chrome has made it so Flash Player automatically updates, so I don't have to worry about doing both." Our products could still push the update if it didn't, but it should've auto updated itself. Then there were long periods of time when the auto updater was broken for Chrome and for some of its plugins. That's where a product like ours came in again and made sure you could update Chrome and the plugin. It's been kind of back and forth. I don't know the specifics of what's going on recently, but I do know that with the last couple, they've had to be released and then the Chrome frame could be updated.
I couldn't tell you more about that, but that's what I've seen. The important thing is there are a lot of products that support an auto updater, but those auto updaters are not always reliable. I remember a period of about six months last year when the Chrome updater was broken. The same group of people were on the Chrome Forum every month saying, "Still broken. When you going to fix it?" Yes, there are some challenges with auto updates, and that's where a solution that can handle third-party products helps you handle issues when the auto updaters don't do their job, and you get visibility and consistency. That's the most I know right now.
All right. We'll take a couple from the Web now. Here's a question: "When does the Windows 10 1703 normal edition release? Will it require a new ISO image to be able to push it?" The answer to your question, Ben, I have half the answer. I'd have to look up when the 1703 goes fully in production. I don't know that offhand, but it will come with a new ISO, and that ISO will be about 4 gig.
Do we have another question from the live audience? Otherwise, I'll take a few more from the Web. Brian has a question: "I'm still very confused. Wasn't Microsoft supposed to be switching so there would be one update package that would fix all Patch Tuesday vulnerabilities?" Yes and no, Brian. The answer is they have done that for the most part for the OS and IE. Windows 10 cumulative rollup and the pre-Windows 10 platforms with the monthly quality rollups are doing the OS and IE together. In the case of Windows 10, you get Edge, as well.
The challenge is all the other product lines―there are silos within Microsoft. The Office team is still doing more of a patch by patch. .NET is on their cumulative rollup, but it's a different cumulative rollup than the OS and IE. They're trying, but it's still very siloed. I don't know if they'll get to a point where they combine. In fact, I would say, from what we've seen with customer demand―many customers say, "Give me a security-only that's not cumulative," "Break IE out so I can do those two independent of each other"―it seems like there will continue to be a mix. I don't know if and when Microsoft will put every package into a single update. By the way, if they did that, the size would increase that much more.
Any other questions from the audience? Got one back there? Yes.
Participant: I haven't found an InfoSec person who could answer this for me, so maybe you can. When you see an IE cumulative update that is released as Critical, and the next month you see a cumulative update that's rated as Moderate―companies that have policies like ours, we do Critical and Important, but we set aside the Moderates. How can that be? How can you have a Critical component included in a cumulative Moderate update?
Chris: The challenge there is when you go with the cumulative model, you have to make a decision. Is it Critical from this day forward? Or, are you going to tell people what the tip is? In this case, if I've been doing it diligently, I know last month was Critical, but this month is Moderate, so I can change my urgency around it this month. Do take into account, however, how Microsoft is labeling it, so if you skip last month, and it says Moderate this month, for you it's Critical because you didn't do last month. So the answer is a decision has to be made on how you represent that. I'm guessing they like to show a Moderate whenever they can because it happens so infrequently now. With the way they've bundled it, out of 13 updates this month, only .NET was not Critical. That would be my best answer to that question.
Another question from the Web audience: "What can organizations do today to reduce the network impact of the growing size of roll-up update packages?" Thanks, Duncan, for passing that one over. Duncan's one of our principal systems engineers, so he was actually taking a customer question he received recently and throwing it over to me in front of a live audience. Much appreciated. For those of you who were in the State of the Union discussion yesterday, we talked about this at a high level. Microsoft is working on a couple of things. They released this Delta update for Windows 10. We already support it in our legacy Shavlik Windows engine. In fact, it's the one I pushed to my system last night. It was only half the size of the full update, if you did the cumulative.
The challenge with that is with the Windows 10 cumulative, you have the Patch Tuesday release with the security updates and then they have this quality preview at the end of the month. If you do the quality preview, it breaks your ability to use the Delta next Patch Tuesday. If you want to take advantage of the Delta, which is the way to reduce the size on Windows 10, you have to do only the Patch Tuesday release for all your systems. Use that quality preview on a select set of systems where you're going to test the nonsecurity changes, but for the rest of the production systems, go Patch Tuesday to Patch Tuesday. That way you can take advantage of that significant drop in size each month.
Going forward, Microsoft is working on what they're calling the Unified Update Platform, or what many of you have heard of as Express. Express is supposed to get to a point where it's taking the Delta format down to where everything operates on it, and the size of these things gets significantly smaller. That hasn't released yet from Microsoft. It is on our radar, I've planned time and adjustment into the roadmap for each of our products this year, so when that comes out, we're going to try to integrate with that as quickly as possible. Until we get more details from Microsoft on how that platform works, I can't tell you much more, but it is on our radar, and we are working to try to reduce that size when and how we can.
We have another question back there.
Chris: All right. The question was about the Windows 10 Delta. The first question was how not to push both of them at the same time. Microsoft made this change, but we had already done it. I know you're on the legacy LD product right now. The Shavlik engine, which is going to be transitioning very shortly, already separated this out. If you're doing a security-only template, you would only get the Patch Tuesday release and would be able to do the Delta-only. If you did security and non-security, it would try to identify both of those, so that's where it becomes more challenging. The way we've identified it lets you filter it so the one including the non-security doesn't get distributed. You'd only be doing the security-only.
Microsoft announced last month that they're going to make a change. When they release the preview later this month, it should be classified as a regular nonsecurity update. The only flag you get otherwise is critical or no severity. They're making that change because of that pain point, but the way we've identified this with our metadata should make that easier. It's probably something we should take offline with Eran and talk more about the experience, and we'll try to help you sort that out near-term until the engine switchover, when I think it will be more clear.
"Why isn't the Delta in that catalog yet?" That I would have to check on. I know it's in the legacy Shavlik catalog because I pushed it to my machine last night. I would have to check with the LANDESK team to see if that was delayed in coming. We'll try to find that out and get you an answer. Stop by afterward and I'll give you my card, so we can follow up on that.
All right. A couple more questions from the Web, and we have a little more time, so "Are there any early indicators of patching changes for the new Windows 10 edition?" I don't know the answer to that right now. Microsoft continues to force us down the Windows 10 route with Kaby Lake and all the other fun stuff that's going on, so I think you can expect they will do everything in their power to push everybody forward. I've had several people ask about Windows 7 end-of-life and when that happens, will Microsoft allow people to extend support and all of those challenges. My guess is they're going to do as they've always done, which is not talk about that at all so you have to go to them if you want to extend support. Even then, they'll probably make it a challenging conversation because they really are trying to force us to Windows 10. That's the best I can answer that one right now.
"Has the Google Chrome issue with McAfee been resolved?" Stephen, I'm not sure. I don't know that I've seen that issue, so I don't know the answer to that offhand. I would have to look that up.
Do we have anymore out in the audience? Otherwise, I'll continue with some of the Web questions as we have more coming in. "In regards to the Intel vulnerability, does AMT have to be provisioned in order to be exploited? Also, what is the link for the Ivanti package to mitigate the remote attack?" I believe the package is on the Ivanti community. I would have to search for it to find the specific KB, but there is a KB that describes the method we're using and has the package available to push that out.
"Does the AMT have to be provisioned to be exploited?" My understanding from everything I have read is AMT being provisioned makes it remotely exploitable. Without it being provisioned, there's still a risk of local exploit until those BIOS updates come around, so there are two levels of risk. If you mitigate the broader risk, you significantly reduce your risk, but there is still a local risk. If somebody's at the local machine, they can do a lot of other nasty things and that's probably a lesser issue at that point, but if you can disable or unprovision that AMT service, you're reducing the remote exploitability.
"MS 1705, IE showing as Critical on your presentation, however, under the Shavlik Protected it's showing as Moderate." Good question, Mohammed. I would have to talk to our content guys and see if we can get that one sorted out. They might've accidentally misclassified it. I'll take that one, and we'll look into it.
"MS 1705 IE, should be Critical, rated as Moderate." I was talking to Rob who's our VP of R&D. He's messaging one of his guys on the content team right now to see if we can get moving on that right away.
Question from Tim: "Good morning, when can we expect to see replication of May 27 MS security patches available on HEAT EMSS?" I haven't looked at every product to see when it's up there. I would have to check on that.
Todd: Should be there shortly.
Chris: Should be shortly? All right.
Todd: Meaning probably today.
Chris: Next question: "Microsoft now uses security update guide." Yes, that portal. "So if you install the monthly rollup, you do not need to install the IE updates?" Correct. Again, I had to verify this myself last night because Todd and I got into our intellectual debate again over what the reality was. We went straight to the source, which was to deploy the monthly rollup and then reassess to see if the IE was still showing as vulnerable. Contrary to the documentation, as of last night, the monthly rollup includes the IE updates. If you do the rollup, you get both. If you do the security-only, you have to do the IE, as well.
Todd: Separately, right?
Chris: Yes. All right: "10 S is the new edition for education competing against Chromebooks. Will the IE supersedence issue be fixed in Ivanti Logic?" Eric, I would have to know more about that issue and what it is. I would say, first of all, let's make sure there's a support case open on that, if you think there's an issue with how supersedence is being detected. Second, if you send me some specifics around it and the case number, I can ask the team what's going on and see if we can get that sorted. Because right now we have three different Windows content streams, I would ask you to include the specific product you're using, so I know which content stream we're talking about. We are trying to bring everything together, it's just a matter of a time before we get it all.
It looks like that might be all the questions. I'll double check under Chat and see if there are a few more there. Well, there are a few more. "Lately noticed Adobe patches are each requiring a reboot in our SCCM configuration one app patches, then wants to reboot, then the next." Normally, Adobe updates like a Flash update might require a browser reboot but not often a system reboot. I would say, if you're using Ivanti's third-party catalog for that, open a support case and let's take a look and see if there's something configuration wise, or if there's something in our content. I would expect I would have a lot more people beating down my door if that was hitting everybody, but if you haven't already reached out to the support guys, then let's take a look at that.
Let's see: "Sent a question about Adobe patches. My PC crashed, so not sure if that was answered." Oh yeah, that's the line I just read, Doug, sorry. All right, it looks like we've answered all the questions. Anymore from the audience here? No? All right.
Todd: No? Good.
Chris: Well, thank you everybody for joining us, and we'll see you next month for another round of Patch Tuesday. Thanks everyone.
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Nas will receive the 2015 W.E.B. Du Bois Medal from Harvard University. The medal is given to distinguished artists and civilians who have made significant contributions to African and African-American history and culture as it relates to history and human rights.
This year's recipients include legendary boxer Muhammad Ali, former U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder, founder of Children's Defense Fund Marian Wright Edelman and artist Carrie Mae Weems, among others.
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