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INDIANA — Students planning to attend Indiana University of Pennsylvania (IUP) — or any other school within the Pennsylvania State System of Higher Education — should prepare for their wallets to get a little lighter in light of cuts in Gov. Tom Corbett's proposed budget.
In his budget issued Tuesday, Corbett proposed cutting $625 million in higher education costs. If the budget is approved, funding for state and state-related schools — including Penn State, Temple University and Lincoln University — would be slashed by 50 percent.
PASSHE is the largest provider of higher education in Pennsylvania and the 10th-largest public university system in the United States.
David J. Werner, IUP's interim president, said in a statement that IUP's planning to this point has been predicated on a 10-percent reduction in state appropriations and a four-percent tuition increase.
"Obviously, those assumptions are no longer valid," he said, adding that leadership in Harrisburg and at IUP is concerned about the dramatic impact this proposed budget would have on the university community.
Werner said while it is important to note that the budget has not been passed, leadership at every level of the system is committed to its students.
"Our first priority is to do everything possible to avoid disruptions in their education," he said.
Over the last decade, the PASSHE has reduced costs by $200 million, Werner said, and has held annual tuition increases below the rate of inflation in four of the last six years.
"Budget reductions alone will not address the impact of the proposed budget cuts," he said. "And it would be irresponsible of the system's leadership to not begin developing its response to the governor's proposed budget, along with plans and contingencies for it."

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February 07, 2013 09:00 ET
Provides Enterprise and Service Provider Customers With Support for Latest Microsoft Exchange Server Features
Provides Enterprise and Service Provider Customers With Support for Latest Microsoft Exchange Server Features
SANTA CLARA, CA--(Marketwire - Feb 7, 2013) - Ensim Corporation, a leading provider of automation and orchestration solutions for on-boarding, service catalog, provisioning, and management of users and organizations with business applications and services, today announced the availability of Ensim Exchange Manager 2013, a carrier grade / enterprise class, powerful provisioning and automation solution, with fine grain entitlement management, compliance policy enforcement, and a complete self-service portal users and IT administrators. Ensim Exchange Manager is part of the extensive library of Service Connectors, which enable all of the functionality of the Ensim Automation Suite platform to be fully leveraged to offer, order, rate, charge, provision, and manage applications, services, and infrastructure for users and organizations, whether on-premise or in the cloud.
Ensim Automation Suite (formerly Ensim Unify) is a fully integrated end-to-end solution that can be deployed on a modular basis and is available in single and multi-tenant versions to meet enterprise and service provider requirements. It also provides complete storefront, ordering, approval workflows, product catalog, pricing, usage collection and rating, invoicing, departmental charging, payments, notifications, analytics, and process orchestration of the entire life cycle, for offering any and all types of products and services to customers, employees, ISVs, and resellers.
Microsoft Exchange is one of the most critical communications resources for large and small companies, but can be complicated and cost prohibitive to configure and administer and requires constant monitoring to ensure high availability. Microsoft Exchange Server 2013 builds upon the Exchange Server 2010 capabilities but has been redesigned to be faster, more fault-tolerant, and provide greater transparency than the previous version. Exchange 2013 also lets users find and search data not only in Exchange, but across their entire organization -- including Lync 2013, SharePoint 2013, and Windows file servers.
Ensim is a Gold Certified Partner and has been working with Microsoft for over ten years with solutions to orchestrate the full suite of solutions such as Exchange, Lync, Sharepoint, Dynamics CRM, Hyper V / System Center, and SQL. As a Microsoft TAP Partner (Technology Adoption Program) for each new release, Ensim is able to ensure support for even the most advanced functionality at a granular level.
The latest version of Ensim Exchange Manager provides enhanced automation, control and orchestration of administrative, operational, and self-service activities for all sized enterprise, MSP, and service provider cloud environments. It prevents misconfiguration of email accounts and user rights, while working in conjunction with Ensim Active Directory Manager to protect and secure the Active Directory environment. Ensim enables automated provisioning of users and organizational units, user self-service, role based IT administration, granular privilege management, compliance policy enforcement, and more, via an easy to use web based portal. Service providers deploying Hosted Exchange will benefit from the flexibility and support offered by the Ensim web portal when granting management access to their customers and channel partners, MSPs can benefit by allowing user self-service even in dedicated hosted deployments, and enterprises can automate bulk and single user provisioning, and enable user self-service, while also monitoring license usage. For additional features, please visit: http://www.ensim.com/products/service_connectors/microsoft_exchange_manager.html
"Microsoft Exchange Server 2013 offers a rich set of new technologies, features, and services. Ensim enables our service provider and enterprise customers to fully leverage these new capabilities and offer them to their users with complete automation and management control," said David Wippich, CEO of Ensim. "Ensim Exchange Manager can be deployed in muti-tenant or single tenant, multi-domain, multi-OU, and multi-forest scenarios, on-premise or in the cloud, dedicated to one enterprise or shared by tens of thousands."
Ensim Exchange Manager is available immediately from Ensim and its resellers worldwide. For additional information, please visit http://go.ensim.com/l/7572/2011-08-12/5CP9 or call 1-877-MY-ENSIM or 1-408-496-3700 from outside North America.
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28 Sep 2012
Good News for Opera in Barcelona
The recently released numbers for the past season at Barcelona's opera Liceu gives some hope for the future.
Stephen Langridge has been appointed Artistic Director of Glyndebourne. Stephen is currently Director for Opera and Drama at Gothenburg Opera, Sweden, a role he has occupied for five years. He will take up his new role at Glyndebourne in spring 2019.
Mention 'nineteenth-century English opera' to most people, and they will immediately think 'Gilbert and Sullivan'. If they really know their Gilbert and Sullivan, they'll probably remember that Sullivan always wanted to compose more serious operas, but that Gilbert resisted this, believing they should 'stick to their last': light, comic, tuneful satire.
Opera directors are used to thinking their way out of theatrical, dramaturgical and musico-dramatic conundrums, but one of the more unusual challenges must be how to stage the spectacle of a young princess's naked horseback-ride through the streets of a city.
Nancy Carroll and Roger Allam play Audrey Mildmay and John Christie in David Hare's play The Moderate Soprano which is currently at the Duke of York's Theatre in London.
Soprano Nadine Sierra has been named the winner of the 13 th annual Beverly Sills Artist Award for young singers at the Metropolitan Opera.
The seventeenth Oxford Lieder Festival (12-27 October 2018) will celebrate a rich tapestry of music, words and performance in European song and will showcase the pinnacles of the repertoire while exploring wider cultural influences.
Lisette Oropesa sings Eurydice in Los Angeles Opera's French version of Gluck's Orpheus and Eurydice that can currently be seen at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion.
The operatic tradition is not as old in the Netherlands as in other European countries, yet opera is a vital part of the Dutch classical landscape. Both Dutch National Opera & Ballet and the Concertgebouw are in Amsterdam, so the capital gets the lion's share of the opera on offer.
On 17 March 2018 Lyric Opera of Chicago will premiere the 2016 opera Fellow Travelers by Gregory Spears (with a libretto by Greg Pierce, based on the novel by Thomas Mallon. Mallon's 2007 novel offered fresh perspectives on the paranoiac investigations of McCarthy-era Washington, DC, through the lens of a gay relationship.
It is well known that in addition to the fourteen songs by Alma Mahler published in her lifetime, several dozen more - perhaps as many as one hundred - were written and have been lost or destroyed.
The semi-finalists for the first Glyndebourne Opera Cup have been announced. Following a worldwide search that attracted nearly 200 entries, and preliminary rounds in Berlin, London and Philadelphia, 23 singers aged 21-28 have been chosen to compete in the semi-final at Glyndebourne on 22 March.
English National Opera (ENO) has announced the casts for Acis and Galatea and Paul Bunyan, 2018's two ENO Studio Live productions. ENO Studio Live forms part of ENO Outside which takes ENO's work to arts-engaged audiences that may not have considered opera before, presenting the immense power of opera in more intimate studio and theatre environments.
The 2018 London Handel Festival explores Handel's relationship with the city. Running from 17 March to 16 April 2018, the Festival offers four weeks of concerts, talks, walks & film screenings explore masterpieces by Handel, from semi-staged operas to grand oratorio and lunchtime recitals.
Internationally-renowned Dartington Summer School & Festival has released the course programme for its 70th Anniversary Summer School and Festival, curated by the pianist Joanna MacGregor, that will run from 28th July to 25th of August 2018.
Following their marriage, on 12th September 1840, Robert and Clara Schumann made their home in a first-floor apartment on the piano nobile of a classical-style residence now known as the Schumann House, on Inselstraße, just a short walk from the centre of Leipzig.
As I approach St Cyprian's Church in Marylebone, musical sounds which are at once strange and sensuous surf the air. Inside I find seventy or so instrumentalists and singers nestled somewhat crowdedly between the pillars of the nave, rehearsing George Benjamin's much praised 2012 opera, Written on Skin.
Bampton Classical Opera's third Young Singers' Competition takes place this autumn, culminating in a public final at Holywell Music Room, Oxford on November 19. This biennial competition was first launched in 2013 to celebrate the company's 20th birthday, and is aimed at identifying the finest emerging young opera singers currently working in the UK.
Independent Opera (IO) was very present at the Wigmore Hall last week. On Thursday 5 October, IO announced 26 year old Slovakian bass Peter Kellner as the winner of the 2018 Wigmore Hall/IO Voice Fellowship, a two-year award of £10,000 plus professional mentoring from IO and the Wigmore Hall. A graduate of the Konzervatórium Košice Timonova and the Mozarteum University Salzburg, Peter is currently a member of Oper Graz in Austria where later this season he will sing the title role of Mozart's Le nozze di Figaro and Colline in Puccini's La bohème.
Richard Strauss's Der Rosenkavalier was premiered at the Dresden Semperoper on 26th January 1911. Almost fifteen years to the day, on 10th January 1926, the theatre hosted another Rosenkavalier 'premiere', with the screening of a silent film version of the opera, directed by Robert Wiene - best known for his expressionistic masterpiece The Cabinet of Dr Caligari. The two-act scenario had been devised by Hugo von Hofmannsthal and the screening was accompanied by a symphony orchestra which Strauss himself conducted.
I have to confess, somewhat sheepishly, at the start of my conversation with Mark Padmore, that I had not previously been aware of the annual music festival held in the small Cotswolds town of Tetbury, which was founded in 2002 and to which Padmore will return later this month to perform a recital of lieder by Schubert and Schumann with pianist Till Fellner.
The recently released numbers for the past season at Barcelona's opera Liceu gives some hope for the future.
The Spanish government's support for the arts has been waivering and the last season saw a very public cancellation of a series of presentations. Dire predictions filled the air.
Yet, announcing the results of the season just ended, the theater counted 268,715 attendees with a healthy 84.5% of the hall filled (75.7% for ballet) — numbers higher that the previous season. The halls were full for Linda di Chamounix, Le Nozze di Figaro, Aida, La Bohème and the Magic Flute, the recitals of Juan Diego Florez and Philippe Jaroussky and the concert in honor of Montserrat Caballé.
The new season starts October 2 with Verdi's LaForza del Destino and the theater notes that they have more than a thousand new subscribers.
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I headed out to Mesa Friday night eager to see Maren Maclean's performance in "Much Ado About Nothing." Much of what our youngest daughter Lizabeth knows about acting, Shakespeare and herself stems from time spent with Maclean, whose Beatrice in "Much Ado" is fantastically funny.
Before taking my seat, I headed to a long table featuring wares being sold to benefit the Southwest Shakespeare Company — where I found a nifty necklace, beaded bracelet and two sets of earrings. Mother's Day shoppers take note — performing arts venues have some of the coolest stuff at some of the lowest prices.
I also spied a group of teens and stopped the adult walking with them to ask whether they were part of a school program, since I always like to hear student reactions to Shakespeare's works. Turns out they were attending "Much Ado" as part of the Arizona Theatre Company's Open Doors program — and had the opportunity to chat with a trio of cast members after the show.
While a nearly full house was enjoying "Much Ado About Nothing," which is directed for SSC by David Vining, folks in another theater were watching the Mesa Encore Theatre production of "Ragtime," which runs through Sunday. Tall MET banners in the MAC lobby herald their next production, the musical "Hairspray," and reveal some gutsy choices for 2012/13 — including "Spring Awakening" and a "TBA" show signified for now by a pair of eyes peeking out from a purple backdrop.
During intermission, I strolled outside the theater to snap photos of red and yellow walls illuminated by Mesa Arts Center — but found myself drawn to a wide flight of stairs, where girls of all ages were gathered in matching navy blue dresses that reminded me of daughter Jennifer's old chorus uniform. Soon I found a mom — and asked what they were up to. She shared that her 12-year-old daughter is in her second year with the East Valley Mormon Choral Organization, which performed a concert called "From Classical to Broadway and Everything in Between" at the Mesa Arts Center Friday night.
She was kind enough to share her program with me, so I could learn more about the organization — which is currently holding auditions for the 2012/13 season (auditions for the EVMCO symphony take place in August). Friday's "Easter Concert" featured "I Dreamed a Dream" (from the musical "Les Miserables"), "Stouthearted Men" (from the operetta "New Moon"), "Piano Concerto No. 2 in C Minor, Op. 18" (by Sergei Rachmaninoff) and more. Their 2012 "Christmas Concert" takes place Dec. 1 at Mesa Arts Center.
After enjoying the second act of "Much Ado About Nothing," I stayed for a talkback with members of the cast and creative tream — then made my way to the tiny Southwest Shakespeare Company studio where a trio of "Much Ado" cast members talked shop with Opens Doors participants. Truth be told, teens trump adults with better theater questions every time. Grown-ups eager to learn more about "Much Ado About Nothing" can consult the SSC play guide online and attend today's 9am "Flachmann Seminar" with Maren Maclean Mascarelli, now the company's education director.
Before Friday's performance, artistic director Jared Sakren shared news of SSC's 2012-13 season, which opens in September with "Love's Labour's Lost" and continues with Charles Dickens' "A Christmas Carol" opening in late November. A January "Winterfest!" features "Hamlet" and "The Tempest" presented in rotating repertory by a single company of players. And works by other playwrights include Noel Cowards' "Private Lives" (Feb/March) and William Goldsmith's "She Stoops to Conquer" (April).
While admiring some of the Mesa Art Center's architectual elements, I spied a poster for "Alice: A Wonder-Full New Musical," coming to MAC in May thanks to Christian Youth Theatre in Phoenix — which is part of a national after-school theater arts training program started in San Diego. The pop/rock work by Jon Lorenz transforms two Lewis Carroll tales into a modern day adventure of high school students more smitten with listening to "The Red Queen" band than finishing their homework.
There's a simple solution for that, by the way. Less pencil-and-paper homework, and more out-there-in-the-community arts education.
— Lynn
Note: Click here to learn about additional performances, events, exhibits and classes coming to the Mesa Arts Center
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Not a vulnerability, but I wondered if anyone saw this bug in Adobe Reader X 10.1:
Apparently, if the pdf file has a "CR" somewhere in the path & file name (like crap.pdf), and protected mode is turned off, it throws a cryptic error about the user needing to accept the EULA for Adobe Acrobat (remember, this is when launching Reader, not Acrobat).
The fix is apparently to create a key for Adobe Acrobat and add a DWORD to accept the EULA.
Drove me nuts.. Not sure how this could have possibly managed to programmed in there... code that operates differently, depending on the file name, is a little weird if you ask me..
These are the same people who can't release quarterly patches you can apply via msp over a security patch without rolling back to the last quarterly release first.
If you let it do the updates itself it works, and is completely useless if you don't allow your users to download. You can't send the 9.45 patch file to a 9.44 install for example.
Oh, and they also never update their ESD packages to the latest revision.
IIRC, I think someone in this thread noted that with (at least) one of their patches, they forgot to increment the version number, and apparently never fixed that patch. They just 'corrected' it in subsequent patches, though you still have to have the broken one in place.
I'm posting in this thread because I'm guessing I've been moderately hijacked through a Flash vulnerability - can't prove it, but it seems to fit the symptoms. I've been running the latest version (10.3.181.34), and I only use Firefox. This is on XP Home. I just ran a MBAM quick scan, which found nothing of consequence. AVG Free has been running continuously and is up to date, but I haven't run any scans.
I'm guessing (and hoping) that this will go away with some combination of a reboot, clearing caches, reinstalling Adobe Flash, maybe even just killing plugin-container.exe and letting it restart, but I wanted to document it before doing anything which would remove evidence.
Here's what's going on:
I'm getting an extra Start Menu icon. It's in the default lower left corner, and the coloring is different from default, so it's easy to spot as a fake. (I keep my button in the upper left.) I've only seen it once apart from a necessary correlation with Flash:
The other times, it was as soon as I went into fullscreen with a Flash movie. (This happened on multiple reputable sites.) It goes away as soon as you exit full screen:
I've seen the button with that black and yellow coloring before - I think it was on a BartPE LiveCD. Not sure if it's an official alternative logo or if its just made up to be a little different.
Please: don't pollute this thread with out-of-topic issues. Create your own thread if you have a question or want to open a discussion on something but this one is for discussing (and cursing about) vulnerabilities in Adobe's products (mostly flash and Acrobat).
Fulgan wrote:
Please: don't pollute this thread with out-of-topic issues. Create your own thread if you have a question or want to open a discussion on something but this one is for discussing (and cursing about) vulnerabilities in Adobe's products (mostly flash and Acrobat).
I explained in my post why I thought this was related to a Flash vulnerability. Are you saying this thread is only for known/published/verified vulnerabilities, or perhaps only for vulnerabilities in the abstract rather than actual events?
Firstly, this is clearly related to Flash in that it had a reproducible component to it triggered by use of Flash, and was reproducible under varying conditions in which Flash was the one thing they had in common (I reproduced this on three respected and totally unrelated sites, and I reproduced it on both Firefox and Opera.)
Secondly, the nature of the aberration/bug is inconsistent with a non-malicious bug like graphics redraw mistakes, since
a) the image used was not one that has appeared on my screen in any legitimate way, and
b) its placement was consistently in the exact position of the screen which would best fool an average user into thinking it was the real thing (not random), and
c) the issue was reproducible after killing and restarting associated processes.
Ergo, the aberration is much more consistent with an attack than a simple bug.
Still reproducible after killing and restarting plugin-container.exe
Still reproducible after clearing Flash cache and settings
Reproducible in another browser (Opera).
Could not reproduce after system restart.
As I said in my initial post, I suspected this aberration would disappear without doing much to actively rid myself of it. I never claimed it to be a severe system-wide security breach. However, I still maintain that the nature of the symptoms points directly to a purposeful attack through a vulnerability of Adobe Flash. If the Flash screen output (as seen by the user) of any arbitrary site can be changed or replaced through means unplanned/unknown to the user, the possibility of security issues is immanent - just use your imagination.
If you can document an actual Flash exploit that's one thing, but all you're doing is conjecture. So yeah, it's not on topic for this thread at all, in as much as anyone can drive a thread's topic here.
If you think there might be a previously unknown 0-day Flash exploit running in the wild, post an URL to the Flash object here. For anything else, start a new thread. It could be a multi-pronged JS attack or any of a handful of other things.
http://blogs.adobe.com/psirt/2011/08/ad ... ble-2.html
Critical Security bulletins for flash player, shockwave player, and other adobe products. (I'm most fussed about browser plugins).
New version of Flash is 10.3.183.5
Well, they almost got a full 4 months out of the last versions of Flash & Shockwave, so I suppose that's something.
Time to spam everybody with the new versions! There's no 'resigned to doing this forever' smiley...
PsychoStreak wrote:
Well, they almost got a full 4 months out of the last versions of Flash & Shockwave, so I suppose that's something.
Time to spam everybody with the new versions! There's no 'resigned to doing this forever' smiley...
I setup Local Update Publisher some months ago, to distribute flash to my 660 clients (10 sites, 1200 users, ... primary education) via WSUS and group policy.
With the previous Flash version (10.3.181.34 .... I've done it so much I've got it memorised) I achieved over 92% instalation of that version. I'm happy with that end result.
I setup Local Update Publisher some months ago, to distribute flash to my 660 clients (10 sites, 1200 users, ... primary education) via WSUS and group policy.
Just a question: do you delete the old package or do you have to keep them to make sure they are uninstalled and upgraded ?
The Flash patch apparently resolves some 400 unique vulnerabilities according to Tavis Ormandy, who Google credit in their Chrome release notice for this update.
http://googlechromereleases.blogspot.co ... te_09.html
Fulgan wrote:
I setup Local Update Publisher some months ago, to distribute flash to my 660 clients (10 sites, 1200 users, ... primary education) via WSUS and group policy.
Just a question: do you delete the old package or do you have to keep them to make sure they are uninstalled and upgraded ?
I pretty much ignore it completely.
In local update publisher I just set the new one to superseed the previous version. All have been 10.3.x.y so far. I don't know how it will work going to, say 10.4.x.y or to 11.x.y.z We'll just have to see. I did initially have problems, mostly caused by previous efforts at pushing flash out via Group policy. It left some bad keys in HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Installer\Products (one for each of the IE and the plugin versions). Just had to find & delete the key and it installed perfectly well. I had one site with about 40 affected computers, so a group policy preference reg key delete took care of that.
In approximately 20 hours 220 (or 1/3) of my Windows clients now have the latest version of Flash. The previous flash version ended up at 92% installed. Which I'm very happy with. I'll never hit 100%, but 90% is very good.
I really like Local Update Publisher to inject Flash updates into WSUS.
If you'd like to find out how it'll deal with new major version jumps, the Labs have betas of Flash Player 11.
Article from Google on Friday as to how they managed to find 400 crash bugs in Flash
http://googleonlinesecurity.blogspot.co ... gle+Reader
It makes me wish they'd bundle Reader with Chrome so they felt compelled to do the same tests for that, seeing as how Reader is a more popular attack vector than Flash.
Also, enjoy the comments on the Google page. Second comment was someone sniffing out a platform war, while the third one manages to link DRM in. Awesome.
It makes me wish they'd bundle Reader with Chrome so they felt compelled to do the same tests for that,
No need -- Chrome has its own PDF renderer.
Yeah, I know, and it's not as good as Reader. More secure, sure, but I'd rather they'd bundle Reader so that I can benefit from their security work for a product I still have to have for when the Chrome PDF Reader isn't enough.
It appears that Flash Player 10.3.183.7 was released today. Download @ Filehippo.
# Addresses compatibility issues:
* Calls to gotoAndPlay() and gotoAndStop() no longer fail in some Flash applications which load shared libraries.
* TextField instances which specify a negative offset (x property contains a negative value) now correctly flow the text horizontally instead of vertically.
* Improved performance in some cases when displaying complex animations.
* MSI versions of the Flash Player Installer now properly install the Native Settings Manager control panel on Windows.
* Flash applications at certain websites (http://www.justin.tv, http://heylenmichel.de) now load correctly.
I'd always suggest linking to the adobe download site rather than a 3rd party one. There's too much risk downloading a potentially tampered with app installer for things like flash from other sites, and in adobe's case there's no need, it's not a hard to get file.
Interestingly, Google don't have an updated version of Chrome available yet with the latest flash player. Typically they beat Adobe by a day or so.
Looks like it's legit. The about page lists 10.3.183.7 as the current version. However, it's not a security update, just a compatibility update. I'll put it in our Task Sequence for new builds, but I don't think I'll roll out the new version just yet. It is good that they fixed the MSI so it puts the control panel applet back. It's quite useful for our support teams.
Yes, the newest Flash is a compatibility update. Secunia Personal Software Inspector (PSI) doesn't flag my system as insecure with the previous Flash version on it.
RicDavis wrote:
I'd always suggest linking to the Adobe download site rather than a 3rd party one.
Downloading Flash Player via FileHippo downloads it directly from Adobe's website according to the CLIGet add-on for Firefox...
wget --header="Host: fpdownload.adobe.com" --header="User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:6.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/6.0" --header="Accept: text/html,application/xhtml+xml,application/xml;q=0.9,*/*;q=0.8"
--header="Accept-Language: en-gb,en;q=0.5" --header="Accept-Encoding: gzip, deflate" --header="Accept-Charset: ISO-8859-1,utf-8;q=0.7,*;q=0.7" --header="DNT: 1"
--header="Referer: http://www.filehippo.com/download_flashplayer_ie/download/1061343a3a03b28f81951514c1394e7d/" --header="Cookie: AWID=10.163.14.9.1277835834148; storeregion="
--header="Connection: keep-alive" 'http://fpdownload.adobe.com/get/flashplayer/current/install_flash_player_ax.exe' -O 'install_flash_player_ax.exe'
Quite possibly (I've not checked).
However, I'd rather go to http://www.adobe.com/products/flashplay ... tion3.html and _know_ I'm getting the latest, legitimate, version rather than rely on a 3rd party site to get a file I'm going to install on hundreds of computers.
All I can see FileHippo introduces is a potential risk of tampering. I don't see they offer any advantage in this situation.
Argh we are getting the dreaded activex error when trying to roll out via GPO- apparently you need to roll out another gpo that deletes reg keys, then deploy the new version. just great.
Why oh why can't they release a self-updating version...
Also I think they are a bit precious about the distribution link above... mods might want to remove?
SHiFTY wrote:
Also I think they are a bit precious about the distribution link above... mods might want to remove?
It's the first hit if you google for 'flash msi download'.
Yay!, Acrobat and Reader Vulnerabilities:
http://www.adobe.com/support/security/b ... 11-24.html
New Flash player slated for release today. No description of what it's fixing yet other than "address critical security issues in the product as well as an important universal cross-site scripting issue that is reportedly being exploited in the wild in targeted attacks."
Word is the new Flash Player is to help Adobe better compete in the new HTML 5 world of mobile browsers. Dunno, just reporting what I read. Let's hope it is more secure. Also, let's hope that Superman is still around to help with the world's problems.
Yeah, but that one's not out until October. What ever this weeks exploit is is seemingly bad enough to require another update for 10.3.
Apparently, the new version 10.3.183.10 is available on the distribution site and prompting folks, but they haven't updated the security page yet to say what it fixes. To me it means the list is quite long, or the exploit is bad enough that they were more concerned about getting the fix out first. Neither option is reassuring.
I'm importing the new MSI's into my SMS and SCCM servers now. I think I can do that in my sleep at this point...
[edit] And the details emerge! http://www.adobe.com/go/apsb11-26 [/edit]
Flash Player 11 and AIR 3 have now been released...
Flash Player 11 (32-bit)
Internet Explorer: http://fpdownload.adobe.com/get/flashplayer/pdc/126.96.36.199/install_flash_player_ax_32bit.exe
Firefox etc.: http://fpdownload.adobe.com/get/flashplayer/pdc/22.214.171.124/install_flash_player_32bit.exe
Flash Player 11 (64-bit) - The 64-bit Flash Player installer includes both a 32-bit and 64-bit version of Flash Player.
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Edit. Links fixed.
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Thanks for the direct links. I'm tired of unticking that stupid "install Chrome/McAfee" box every single time I update.
edit: :/ I got Flash 10 instead.
I've just noticed that. Oops.
Of what use is the 64-bit version? Other than to use in a 64-bit browser, I guess. Any other reason for it?
Of what use is the 64-bit version? Other than to use in a 64-bit browser
Precisely. It's the end of all the bitching about how IE 64-bit is useless because it doesn't have Flash. Or something.
Mozilla's also got nightlies of 64-bit Firefox for Windows too.
Any other 64-bit software that wants to host the Flash ActiveX runtime now can do so as well.
Personally, I don't bother with installing it. I just install the 32-bit versions.
Dan2the6th wrote:
Of what use is the 64-bit version?
It can use up all of your RAM now.
Well played, sir
I think one of the reasons for wanting to go 64-bit is the belief that there's more entropy in ASLR (I might be getting the terms wrong), but discussions on this board and repostings of stuff from Mark Russinovich seem to suggest that isn't the case.
Well, I downloaded the 64/32-bit combo version and installed it. Control Panel says "Adobe Flash Player 11 Plugin 64-bit" is installed, and it's working, even though I use 32-bit Firefox. Maybe it switches modes on the fly depending on the browser using it?
Correct. The 64-bit browser uses the 64-bit Adobe plugin and the 32-bit browser the 32-bit browser plugin. I only install the 32-bit on purpose, so that if I wanna surf the w3 without flash I can do so with the 64-bit browser.
I'm going to test this new version for a bit to make sure it doesn't blow anything up.
Honestly I suspect there will be a security update before I bother pushing it out to my users.
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Well played, sir
I think one of the reasons for wanting to go 64-bit is the belief that there's more entropy in ASLR (I might be getting the terms wrong), but discussions on this board and repostings of stuff from Mark Russinovich seem to suggest that isn't the case.
A larger address space is better for ASLR, because it makes heap spraying (one possible way to bypass ASLR) more difficult.
ASLR isn't the end of all malware, although it is pretty effective right now. ASLR (along with DEP) is pretty effective right now because malware generally isn't written to bypass it-- people tend to target systems where one or both aren't present, because it's easier to compromise those machines. Neither is bulletproof, though (even together)-- both can be bypassed with the correct techniques. See http://blogs.technet.com/b/srd/archive/ ... -aslr.aspx
Maybe it switches modes on the fly depending on the browser using it?
Not really possible. The 64-bit version simply installs the 32-bit version at the same time.
It's a bit more obvious with the uninstallers, because the 32-bit uninstaller will fail to run on a 64-bit system and tell you to grab the 64-bit uninstaller.


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I've grown so much in knowledge from this great community & I will not seek any further credit lines, only nurture & care for what's already achieved. I've acquired new lines, improved old lines, & will seek new ventures late 2013 (Oct-Nov-Dec).
Happy New Year 2013 !
Need a new car but in the garden for at least the next few months, need to get my balances down so I can get a good rate on my car. Will shop for vehicle at my CU so only 1 inquiry when I do shop. I wish everyone a new year, I have a few baddies that will fall off this year, but will continue to have some for a few more years also, as someone said More than once it is a marathon, not a sprint. Best wishes everyone in getting your financial life on track.
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Cheers to anyone who is drinking
Starting off the new year in the garden - approaching 1 month.
Amex BCE - $2000 - looking forward to 3x in Feb.
Amex Green - NPSL
Chase Freedom - $1000
Capital One - $1000
Best Buy - $1500
Walmart - $2500
Starting: 563 | Current: 748 (TU 8/15) | Goal: 800 | Garden since: 08/10/2015
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What about those who are planning to refinance a mortgage? Is that in or out of the garden?
if you take an inquiry to refinance your out but its a big reason to step out. and hopefully for the better.
ANY hard pull will result in this.
I am out then. Maybe in the spring.
Hello All and Happy New Year!! I wish everyone the very best in 2013!
I've had a Great past 1.5 years rebuilding. I have many on here to thank! I'm in the garden till mid 2015 when I buy a new home and auto. My seedlings: NCFU CashRewards 25K/ NFCU Flagship 25K/ Amex BCP 18.3K/Amex BSP 10K/ Amex PRG/ Amex Zync/ Chase CSP 20.5K/ Chase Freedom11K/ Citi Diamond Pref 10.75K/ Barclays Apple 10K/ AACFCU Plat MC 10K/ AACFCU Loc 7.5K/ DCU VISA 5.4K / WalMart 9K/ RTG 8K/ Chevron 2.5K. All these were attained in the last 1.5 years by strategic apping and still retained a AAoA of over 7 years. It can be done.
Just closed CapOne- Merrick - . Closing Chevron, RTG 01/10/13. I'm set for life me thinks. Only Credit I'm seeking is the occasional SP CLI. Good luck to everyone here!
I am here, though I am itching to app for a Citi or something other than Chase...even though I so adore Chase. I feel like I need to be more diverse. I had a CO with AMEX years ago, so I don't even bother with them. I'd liek to add something, though, so maybe in 6 months or so.
However, the only CRA that is EVER pulled for me here in FL is EQ, and after just TWO inquiries (both Chase!) I saw a score drop of 9 points! I could sob!
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Chase Sapphire: 10000
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I fired both Orchard/HSBC as they wouldn't raise my CLI EVER or drop the fees. The only two cards I did not try for CLI on were Target and Kohls, because I could find no supporting evidence that it was gonna happen anyway.
I have gardeing tools, all pink, and intend to stay at least 6 months. Thanks for the snacks!
162 days.
Happy New Year!
Happy New Year!!!
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Richard Caplan, ed. Exit Strategies and State Building. New York: Oxford University Press, 2012. xii + 337 pp. $99.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-19-976011-4; $34.95 (paper), ISBN 978-0-19-976012-1.
Reviewed by Mona Fixdal (University of Oslo, Norway)
Published on H-Diplo (February, 2013)
Commissioned by Seth Offenbach (Bronx Community College, The City University of New York)
The Winding Down of Post-Conflict Peace-Building Missions
Richard Caplan's book, Exit Strategies and State Building, is an important, though-provoking, and compelling addition to what has become quite a substantial body of literature on international peace-building missions. Scholars turned their attention to these missions as their number rapidly multiplied after the Cold War. The main goal of these operations, whether we are talking about Sierra Leone, Haiti, Cambodia, East Timor, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Kosovo, or Iraq, has been to create the societal conditions that will prevent the country from sliding back into violent conflict. Beyond that, the nature of the missions has varied greatly. Early on many of these missions primarily sought to foster economic and political liberalization, in the hope that a market economy and a liberal democracy would help promote stability and long-term peace.[1] But after it became clear that rapid democratization could be destabilizing, both scholars and practitioners started to pay attention to the need for international involvement in state building. By seeking to rebuild the political system, peace builders took a more active role in the design of political institutions and the running of the war-torn country. In the past few decades, therefore, the trend has been towards more complex missions with ambitious goals and longer time frames.
The literature on post-conflict peace building has predominantly focused on the beginnings and middles of these missions, on questions related to democratization and economic recovery, and on reforms of the political sector. The many dilemmas such missions inevitably pose--how to balance the need for foreign involvement with local self-determination; how and when to bring local politicians and groups into the decision-making process; and how big the footprint of the mission should be--is another focal point.[2] The topic of how such missions should be scaled down and eventually come to an end, has received much less attention. One of the reasons for the scant attention to exit strategies may be that the concept seems to reflect, as Gideon Rose argues, an anti-interventionist bias. When politicians and commentators have stressed the need for a clear exit strategy it has usually been in response to public outcries about seemingly never-ending and convoluted foreign entanglements. As Rose points out, the term seems to bias the "discussion in favor of foreign military commitments that can be terminated easily and against those that appear more open-ended."[3] Instead of focusing on exit strategies, Rose therefore advocates attention to transition strategies, and that is what Caplan and his co-authors offer.
Caplan's introductory chapter emphasizes that "exit" must be understood as "a process of transition" (p. 5). It is not only a term for the full withdrawal or completion of the international mission, or for a single occasion, but for the transition from one kind of operation to another, for instance, from a state-building mission to a peace-monitoring operation. An exit strategy, according to Caplan, is "a plan for disengaging and ultimately withdrawing from a state or territory, ideally having attained the goals that inspired international involvement originally" (p. 5). An exit strategy is closely related to mandate implementation, but the two are not identical. If the goals of an international mission have been accomplished, a successful exit strategy will help secure those achievements. If, on the other hand, the goals were not attained, "a successful exit strategy will entail measures to preserve the partial gains or minimize the losses, including any reputational costs to the state-building actors" (p. 313). Exit strategies are therefore what Caplan calls "path dependent," as "a good exit depends on good entrance and intermediate strategies" (p. 315).
Exit Strategies is a comparative, empirical, and thematic study of exit strategies with respect to four "families of experience": "colonial administrations, complex peace support operations, international territorial administrations, and transformative military occupations" (p. 5). This categorization, outlined in Caplan's introduction, creates some confusion because by most definitions an international administration is a type of peace-support operation. This is acknowledged in Willam J. Durch's chapter on peace-support operations (PSOs), which classifies different PSOs according to the level of "state-building involvement," ranging from large-scale international administrations (or transitional administration) on one end of the spectrum to limited, traditional observer missions on the other (p. 79). Since the book's structure is based on this categorization--there is one section on each of the four types of mission--it too becomes somewhat muddled. That said, the topic of the discussion in each chapter is clear enough, so this is not a major problem.
In addition to the four survey chapters, there are two case study chapters for each type of mission: Senegal and Indonesia are discussed as examples of colonial administrations; Sierra Leone and Haiti are examples of PSOs; Kosovo and East Timor are used as illustrations of international administrations; and Gaza and Iraq are included as examples of military occupations. The thematic section contains a chapter on competing normative visions of exit; a chapter on the political economy of exit; a chapter on the UN peace-building architecture and a chapter on the policy lessons that should be drawn from the chapters in the book.
The case study chapters discuss how the mission in question has scaled down its operation or come to an end, the degree to which exit was the result of a carefully drawn plan or a more muddled and disorganized process, as well as the effect of exit strategies. In his chapter on Senegal, for instance, Tony Chafer argues that while France's exit was a success, in the sense that it was not followed by violent conflict or political instability, it was not the product of a carefully planned and executed strategy. France did not seek to develop an exit strategy until independence was inevitable in 1959. Chafer argues that the explanation for the smoothness of the decolonization process must be sought in the willingness among indigenous elites to cooperate with the existing colonial power, the existence of a shared political culture among French and Senegalese elites, and a high level of trust between colonial and local leaders.
The chapter on Kosovo illustrates a recurring point, namely that a good exit strategy is dependent upon a good entry strategy. When the United Nations Mission in Kovoso (UNMIK) took over the administration of Kosovo in 1999, it was supposed to establish "the development of provisional democratic self-governing institutions to ensure conditions for a peaceful and normal life for all inhabitants of Kosovo" (quoted, p. 159). But Security Council Resolution 1244 did not specify what Kosovo's status would be--that is, whether it would receive independent statehood or continue to be part of the Former Republic of Yugoslavia. Crampton shows how the uncertainty about Kosovo's final status hampered the mission progress and made the completion of its mandate, and therefore also the formulation of a clear exit strategy, impossible. As long as the final status remained unsettled, not even the "standards before status" policy (p. 165), which specified a set of benchmarks for assessing Kosovo's progress towards a well-functioning democracy, could really help propel Kosovo in the right direction.
The case of Kosovo also serves as an illustration of an important trend with respect to the downscaling and ending of state-building missions. Instead of relying on elections and set timetables, the use of benchmarks has become an increasingly common way for the international community to define the conditions for exit. This trend, as Dominic Zaum points out, flows naturally from the increased state-building ambitions of post-Cold War missions. It also indicates that the international community is less worried about disregarding a country's sovereignty. If it is for the sake of peace, international agencies are quite willing to set aside the previously almost inviolable norm of nonintervention.
The state-building literature often seems to unwittingly teeter between the empirical and normative questions--between what is or has been and what should be or should have been--and this is the case in this book, too. In the chapter about the policy implications that can be gathered from the book, Caplan argues that "a successful exit strategy is one that, at the very least, leaves behind a consolidated peace--assuming that such a peace has been established." Caplan is here referring to a self-sustaining peace, one that is not only marked by the absence of war, but also "the absence of major threats to public security," such as "political repression and discrimination ... torture, and widespread serious crime." This is no short order, as it requires not only "basic security," but also "effective and legitimate governance institutions and the rule of law" and "conditions for economic and social well-being" (p. 314).
Gideon Rose has said that exit processes are "devilishly complex" and Caplan's book illustrates that point (p. 58). It is not easy to come up with a simple prescription for how the scaling down and end to state-building operations should happen. As William Durch argues, "No definitive formula for a success-based exit is possible" (p. 97). Thus, those looking for a quick and simple discussion of exit with clear lessons for future state-building missions will not find it here. That is not really a criticism of Caplan's book, only the nature of the beast, so to speak. What Exit Strategies and State Building instead will give its readers, is a wide-ranging, level-headed, and much-needed study of the many questions that surround the end of state-building missions.
[1]. For a discussion, see Roland Paris, At War's End: Building Peace after Civil Conflict (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2004).
[2]. See, for instance, Anna K. Jarstad and Timothy D. Sisk, eds., From War to Democracy: Dilemmas of Peacebuilding (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2008); and Roland Paris and Timothy D. Sisk, eds., The Dilemmas of Statebuilding: Confronting the Contradictions of Postwar Peace Operations (New York: Routledge, 2009).
[3]. Gideon Rose, "The Exit Strategy Delusion," Foreign Affairs 77, no. 1 (1998): 58.
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Then I remembered... a few years ago, my husband bought for me Rachael Ray's first issues of her magazine "Every Day Rachael Ray". Bear with me, those of you who groan at her voice or perky smile. I like her recipes. While her prattling can put people off, she uses easy-to-find ingredients and no canned soups or cool whip. That works for me! However, Rachael Ray admits she doesn't like to bake. So, I was surprised to find a recipe for "Raspberry Lemon Shortbread Tart" in an issue. Of course, this was written by one of her folks who writes for the magazine. I have to tell you, that this recipe is a winner. I've made it multiple times, but I've always used olallieberries.
Please allow me to rant about "dumb recipe instructions". Why are ingredients listed as "1 and 3/4 cups flour, divided? Now, I'm pretty good at math. BUT... it annoys me to have to stop and figure out how to divide it. In half? What? That's exactly what happened when I made this-- somehow, I messed up with the shortbread. I should have gotten a clue, when I blended the crust ingredients together and it was soft and sticky. Hmmmm...
The dough turned out to be a buttery pool of "ick". Great. Almost two cubes of butter wasted. See?
Since I had already prepped my ingredients (which I always do), I had to start over with the crust. Arrrrrrrrgh.
I've solved the problem by re-writing the recipe, the way I prefer-- which is "For the crust", "For the filling". I hope you like this version. I know that I do! Moving along...
This is a very quick and easy recipe (once I re-wrote the ingredients for frazzled minds), just like the rest of RR's recipes. It's very pretty, too. I used a spring form pan. You can easily substitute for most any kind of berry, and it would turn out delicious.
First, to make the crust, I use my food processor. If you want to mix the butter into the dry ingredients with your fingers-- have at it. Personally, I think my Cuisinart is much faster and easier.
Pulse still crumbly and kind of dry looking (as opposed to soft and sticky), and then press into a non-stick spring form pan (or a tart pan with a removable bottom will do just fine).
Bake this at 400F for about 20 minutes. Then lower the oven to 300F.
Next, you place your berries (you can use fresh or frozen) on top of the crust. I didn't let it cool, so this saves time.
I love lemon zest, so I used two lemons, which is added to the custard mix:
You'd have to pry my microplane out of my cold dead hands--I have a collection of them...
The custard is super quick and easy to make, because you whisk it together and pour it over the berries. Bake this for 30 minutes and cool.
This tart makes a very pretty presentation, especially when dusted with powdered sugar. I also like to serve it with a dollop of whipped cream.
It's sweet and tart. The lemon is very pronounced, so you can tone it down by using only one lemon. My family loves lemon, so I use two of them.
The crust has a wonderful crunch that compliments the chewy custard and the softness of the berries. I really like this recipe a LOT.
The remaining raspberries are safely stored in my freezer. I have earmarked some of these for a panna cotta with a rasberry coulis sauce. I'd like to make some raspberry jam, so I'll be searching for an easy way to make this. This tart lasted two days-- some, I brought to work. The rest, my boys devoured and gave this recipe a double thumbs up. That's all that matters to me.
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Students work through the peer-review publication process on data sets and projects in applied ecology. Discussions involve rationale and hypothesis testing for a project, data analysis techniques, reporting and interpretation of results. It is expected that manuscripts developed in the course are worthy of publication and that oral presentations are of a caliber for subject area conferences and meetings.


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Dave Winer comments on Apple's decision not to include a "Home" button in the default toolbar of Safari. As pictured above it can easily be put back by choosing Customize Address Bar... from the View menu. I've often wondered about the choice but don't often think of it because it's solved in the first few seconds I use Safari and never an issue again.
Winer goes on to bash Safari. I would have to strongly disagree. I've tried other browsers and there just isn't a single browser that comes close. Firefox certainly isn't bad but it just misses the mark as far as a tool to be used by frequent web publishers. The big feature that no others have is "Check Spelling as you type". Given that every other (non-web) application in use every day does this it is amazing that Apple is the only company that has figured it out. The same feature used to drive the choice of email clients but everybody who is anybody in the email game anymore knows you don't wait until somebody hits "Send" to check spelling, you do it as they type.
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You're awesome. Thanks a
You're awesome. Thanks a lot.
home button
I can't even find the "view menue" let alone figure out how to add it. Every time I look for assistance on the ipad I get messages from young people who forget there's older unexperienced people in the world and they don't care to try and explain so we understand.
Home Button
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thanks for the post...it was
thanks for the post...it was exactly what i needed! AWESOME
How do I find the view button
How do I find the view button or tab to change to this safari home page
Thank you!
I should have found that myself :P Thank you.
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CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) — US Airways is waiving the change fee for customers who must alter their flights due to severe Christmas weather.
The airline is canceling the $150 charge fr changing flights to and from 25 cities where there are flight delays and cancellations. The offer is available to travelers scheduled to fly Wednesday and Thursday. They must keep the same flight origin and destination. Their rescheduled flights must be by New Year's Day.
The affected airports are in Canada, Indiana, Maine, Michigan, New Hampshire, New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania, and Vermont.
Travelers can change their trip online at http://www.usairways.com/manageyourtrip or call 800-428-4322.
Severe thunderstorms are forecast for the Carolinas while a line of blizzard and winter storm warnings stretched from Arkansas up the Ohio River to New York and on to Maine.
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The compact Galaxy® 5400-XT is an outstanding, general purpose 4' antenna of heavy duty construction for general purpose communications. Its at home on T-tops, hard-tops, and other positions aloft, where its small size can deliver maximum range.
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BOE Marine is known for providing the absolute best installations on the brands we carry. We are pleased to expand our footprint in partnership with companies that share the same ideals as us. Listed below you will find our Installation Partners in key regions around the country. You can contact these companies directly and get the same great service you expect from BOE Marine. Through our partnerships you are able to order your equipment at the best prices, tax free, from our website. Then have one of our Installation Partners perform a high quality installation.
Our program is built upon a high degree of accountability. Our Installation Partners expect us to give great advice, prices, and supply all of the parts needed for the install. And we expect our Installation Partners to provide an expert installation in a timely manner and provide support for any equipment malfunctions or installation issues.
As the customer, you can be assured that you are buying from a dealer authorized in the brands we carry. And you will receive uncompromising advice and support on the local level from the Installation Partner, or via phone with BOE Marine. We feel there is no better package to get you the best pricing along with experienced local service.
Mid-Atlantic (MD, DE, DC)
Serviced by BOE Marine 866-735-5926
North Carolina (Lake Norman Area)
Serviced by BOE Marine of Lake Norman 866-735-5926
Florida West Coast (Tampa/St Pete Area)
Bluewater Custom Marine - 727-488-7171
Mobile Electronics Installation
St. Petersburg, FL
CONTACT: Martin Warren
Email: firstname.lastname@example.com
Fort Lauderdale - Miami Dade
Parker Yacht - 954-463-1515
225 SW 32nd Street
Fort Lauderdale, FL 33315
CONTACT: Ole Parker
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Palm Beach County
Marine Electronics Solutions - 561-427-1040
3866 Prospect Ave #8
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HMS Marine Electric, LLC - 251-591-3283
400 Myrtle Avenue
Fairhope, AL 36532
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Dempsey Marine Electronics & Electrical - 508-360-1094
234 Queen Anne Road #2
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Bill Platt Electronics - 409-739-3489
3501 Tallow Forest St
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Washington DC / Occoquan
Jimmy's Mobile Marine
James Deuterman
9192 Big Springs Loop
Bristow, VA 20136
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Baton Rouge, LA
David Wade Marine
18150 Petroleum Dr
Baton Rouge, Louisiana
(225) 752-3789
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6 Spar Lane Sandy's, MA01
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Long Island, NY
Jeff's Marine Electronics
8 Rugby Dr
Shirley, NY 11967
631-874-0070 or 908-285-0007 (cell)
Southern New Jersey
Jersey Boy Marine Electronics - 609-425-1676
Mobile Electronics Installation / FCC inspections
Cape May Court House, NJ
CONTACT: Robert Gauntt
Email: firstname.lastname@example.com
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By Ian Ransom
MELBOURNE, Oct 24 (Reuters) - The gulf between Australian tennis great Rod Laver and the nation's brightest hope Bernard Tomic has been starkly highlighted this week with bouquets flowing in one direction and brickbats the other.
By Ian Ransom
MELBOURNE, Oct 24 (Reuters) - The gulf between Australian tennis great Rod Laver and the nation's brightest hope Bernard Tomic has been starkly highlighted this week with bouquets flowing in one direction and brickbats the other.
The 75-year-old Laver, the only men's player to win two calendar grand slam titles, has been warmly welcomed Down Under after making the journey from his California home to launch his autobiography "Rod Laver: A Memoir".
Tomic, ranked 52nd in the world, has been panned on social media for retiring when 4-1 down in the deciding set of a first round encounter in Spain against Russian journeyman Mikhail Youzhny on Tuesday.
Coming the day after his 21st birthday, Tomic's withdrawal from the Valencia Open match was due to a headache, according to local media, and continued a pattern of late-season fadeouts that proved controversial last year.
A season that began with promise last year ended with the Germany-born player dubbed 'Tomic the tank engine' for his lack of staying power and then getting booted out of Australia's David Cup team for a perceived paucity of commitment.
Tomic, touted a future top 10 player, put behind last year's troubles with a bright start to the season but was soon plunged into controversy by his father's conviction in a Spanish court for assaulting his former hitting partner.
Tomic rallied with a fourth-round appearance at Wimbledon but has failed to pass the second round in his last eight tournaments.
However legitimate his reasons for pulling out in Valencia, the news has been greeted with scepticism Down Under, where tennis fans have long hoped for Tomic to take the mantle from ageing two-time grand slam winner Lleyton Hewitt.
"He probably had a hangover," said one Twitter user.
Australia's Davis Cup captain Pat Rafter and a plethora of former players, coaches and officials have tried to lift the player with a mix of tough love and encouragement.
Laver said the player would be doing himself a disservice by not playing every game as if it were his last.
"I know there are some down-times and I think when he looks back at things in five, 10 years from now, he may be disappointed with himself," Laver told reporters at his book launch at Melbourne Park on Thursday.
"Because if you don't put your best effort in every time, you won't know when the best time is to play your best tennis. There is no best time.
"It doesn't just gel because you think 'oh, I'm going to play good today.' It doesn't come that way. The world of tennis, the competition and the opponents you've got, you've got to be ready to play your best every time."
Laver, whose book includes an emotional foreword penned by 17-times grand slam champion Roger Federer, was also named as a global ambassador for the Australian Open on Thursday and said would offer the country's young players advice, if they sought it.
Tomic, he said, was a "very, very capable" player and people should not criticise his unorthodox style, but the 21-year-old would need to learn how to get off the court quickly as a victor.
"Some of the things (he does) don't pan out but when he played a guy called (Richard) Gasquet at Wimbledon he actually made him feel sick, the way he was playing with him.
"He was playing drop shots, slow shots, easy shots, serving aces. That's the way he plays and I think Tomic is putting opponents off with the way he plays.
"So I hope he doesn't give that up. But I think maybe his concentration is sometimes lacking in how to get rid of a match. You can't stay out there and sort of play a cat and mouse game.
"You've got to play hard, when you see an opportunity, take it and get off the court." (Editing by John O'Brien)


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By Liana B. Baker
SUN VALLEY, Idaho (Reuters) - Liberty Media Corp chairman and cable pioneer John Malone, whose offer to buy Time Warner Cable Inc was rejected by its management, sees Time Warner Cable as a buyer of other cable operators in an industry that needs to be consolidated.
Cable companies need larger scale through consolidation, whether through mergers or joint ventures, the so-called "King of Cable" told reporters on the sidelines of the annual Allen and Co media conference in Sun Valley, Idaho.
Malone's Liberty Media, which has a 28 percent stake in cable operator Charter Communications, has been circling Time Warner Cable. Liberty also has a 1 percent investment in Time Warner Cable.
"(Time Warner Cable) should be a consolidator because they're the second biggest," he said.
Time Warner Cable, with roughly 12 million subscribers, is the No. 2 U.S. cable provider behind Comcast, which has more than 21 million video customers.
Since the 72-year-old Malone jumped back into the U.S. market with Liberty Media's investment in Charter earlier this year, analysts have predicted a wave of cable consolidation. The U.S. cable TV market faces rising programming costs as well as technology threats from upstarts such as Netflix, which offers movies and TV shows to subscribers online.
Malone recently made an offer for Time Warner Cable, which was rejected by its management because they believe it is not beneficial to shareholders, Reuters has reported.
When asked Thursday if he wants to buy Time Warner Cable, he answered only "that's a tough question." While Malone indicated Time Warner Cable could do its own deals, he left open the scenario that Charter could still buy the company.
"Whether A merges with B, B buys A or A, B and C get together to do a joint ventures to do things that have to be done in larger scale, that's really the message I'm trying to deliver," he said, without specifying which companies those letters represent.
Companies have to get bigger to thrive, he said.
"Comcast is large enough to do OK," Malone said. "The rest of the industry needs consolidation, in our view, in order to get scale economics."
In terms of the kind of deals Malone likes, he said that "buying the guy (geographically) next door makes the most sense," referring to a decade-long push by larger companies to swap local cable systems with one another to create larger clusters.
"Horizontal mergers are the safest, usually have the most synergies and are the easiest, but a lot of that has already been done in the industry," he said. "At this point you tend to look more for scale."
Time Warner Cable, which has long viewed Cablevision as an acquisition target because it makes sense geographically in the New York area, has reached out to smaller operators Cox and Cablevision about creating larger clusters in some of its main markets, Reuters has reported.
"Obviously if you find you could buy the guy next door, that's the best, but those opportunities are somewhat limited," Malone said.
Malone, a former investor in satellite provider DirecTV, also said he thinks the two largest satellite players should merge "because scale economics in the media business drives down costs and makes it possible for larger investment."
Dish Network has attempted to buy DirecTV but U.S. regulators blocked the deal in 2002.
(Reporting by Liana B. Baker; Editing by Ron Grover, Nick Zieminski and Andrew Hay)


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INDIAN WELLS, Calif. -- Rafael Nadal defeated error-prone Roger Federer 6-4, 6-2 in the quarterfinals of the BNP Paribas Open on Thursday night in the earliest meeting between the two rivals since they first played each other in 2004.
Nadal needed barely 1 1/2 hours to close out the defending champion in their 29th career meeting and the first in a quarterfinal. Nadal faced just two break points on his serve in the match.
Nadal and Federer usually don't play each other until the semifinals and finals of tournaments, but the Indian Wells draw pitted them against each other in their earliest meeting since a third-round match at Miami nine years ago.
Nadal returned to the ATP Tour a month ago, winning two of three tournaments on clay after missing seven months because of a left knee injury. He had his knee wrapped and at times appeared to have a slight limp.
"No question, he's a bit careful at times, his movement. That's totally normal,'' Federer said. "Hasn't played for some time on hard court. I don't know if it's careful or if it's just getting used to it again.''
Federer, at 31 the oldest player left in the draw, tweaked his back earlier in the tournament.
"I'm happy to be out there and able to compete, but it's obviously a small issue,'' he said. "That doesn't work against guys like Rafa, obviously.''
Nadal served a love game to even the first set 3-all, then earned the only break in the next game, taking a 4-3 lead on a backhand passing shot. He went on to win two of the final three games as Federer pulled shots wide or dumped them into the net.
"The longer the match went on, I realized I had to change up my game. I played differently than I was hoping to be able to,'' said Federer, who started attacking more with mixed results in the second set. "He got more comfortable as the match went on. Obviously, once I was down a set I knew it was going to be difficult.''
Federer faced a slew of break points in the second set, with Nadal converting in two of the first three games to take a 3-0 lead.
Federer briefly rallied, gaining one break back at 3-1, then losing just one point on his serve in the next game to get to 3-2. But Nadal won the final three games to claim the match in front of Andre Agassi.
"You could see at least I could serve full basically, and that always gives you a direction,'' said Federer, adding that he didn't want to talk about his back too much "because I don't like to undermine his performance, either.''
A year ago, Federer beat Nadal in the semifinals on his way to a fourth Indian Wells title. Nadal leads their career series 19-10, and evened their head-to-head mark on hard courts at 6-6. Nadal improved to 11-0 against top-10 opponents, with his last such loss coming here a year ago against Federer.
Nadal advanced to a semifinal against No. 6 Tomas Berdych, who beat Kevin Anderson 6-4, 6-4.
The women's draw was hit with the injury withdrawals of defending champion Victoria Azarenka and No. 7 seed Sam Stosur on Thursday.
Azarenka was scheduled to play No. 8 seed Caroline Wozniacki in a quarterfinal that would have pitted two former top-ranked players against each other. But she withdrew with a right ankle injury.
"It's already really painful, but it's very high risk to make it much worse,'' Azarenka said.
Stosur pulled out of her quarterfinal against No. 4 Angelique Kerber because of a right calf injury.
Wozniacki and Kerber moved into a semifinal against each other. No. 2 Maria Sharapova and No. 13 Maria Kirilenko will play in the other semi.
Azarenka had been in obvious pain during her earlier matches, but she downplayed it when asked. She said her ankle has been bothering her since before she played Serena Williams in a New York exhibition on March 5.
"It's just worse,'' she said. "I tried not to practice yesterday, and to see if it will settle down at least a little bit. I felt yesterday was better, not walking in my tennis shoes. But today, once I started doing the exercise, that was it.''
Azarenka said a doctor advised her to rest because her ankle has inflammation and tendinitis in it. She added that she plans to travel to Key Biscayne, Fla., for next week's tournament.
"The doctor said it might heal quick, the pain might go down quickly because of the inflammation going down, but the healing process is a little bit unknown,'' she said. "So that's frustrating for me as a player, not knowing.''
Stosur hurt her calf muscle in the last game of a three-set win against Mona Barthel on Tuesday. The Australian didn't practice on Wednesday and iced her leg. Stosur was five minutes into her warm-up on Thursday when she realized she couldn't play.
She said this is only the second time she's pulled out of a match in her career and isn't sure how long she'll be sidelined.