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Dems quick to fundraise off ruling
It's almost like the Supreme Court knew there was a fundraising deadline looming.
Shortly after the court's 5-4 decision in Burwell v. Hobby Lobby, which said for-profit employers with religious objections can opt out of providing contraception coverage under Obamacare, the liberal fundraising emails went flying. Democratic candidates and liberal groups were seeking to collect scores of new email addresses and bank last-minute cash contributions in advance of the monthly FEC deadline at midnight Monday.
"It's disgusting: The Supreme Court just ruled that corporations can deny women insurance coverage for birth control," the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee said in a fundraising request less than two hours after the decision.
"It's a shameful day for our country. But we CAN'T let the GOP use this to steal the momentum, erase our lead, and take over the Senate. The consequences would be dire. With just 14 hours to go before the most critical FEC deadline of this election, please pitch in to stop a GOP Senate takeover," the Senate Democrats wrote in an email with the all-caps subject line "SUPREME COURT DECISION."
( Also on POLITICO:SCOTUS decision ignites Obamacare, contraception fight)
Welcome to the bizarro world of modern fundraising, where even bad news can be good for the bottom line. A loss in a big policy fight means outrage, anger and lots of small-dollar campaign contributions from riled-up grass-roots supporters.
The Democratic National Committee was less blunt than its Senate counterparts. The DNC didn't ask for cash but moved just as quickly to engage its supporters on the Supreme Court's narrow 5-4 decision in Hobby Lobby.
"Today, the Court overturned a key provision that protected women's access to affordable health care benefits," Lily Adams, deputy DNC communications director, wrote in a fundraising email. "After the ruling this morning, we all need to stand up. Add your name now to stand with Democrats fighting to protect Obamacare."
( Also on POLITICO: Hill Democrats plot response to Hobby Lobby)
The Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee actually didn't wait for Monday morning's decision, sending an email under health activist Sandra Fluke's name on Sunday night.
Fluke — who is running for state Senate in California and came to prominence after testifying in front of a congressional committee about birth control in 2012 — called on supporters to sign a petition.
"Decisions this important don't just affect us — they affect our loved ones, our neighbors, and our country, and this decision will impact other health care access and employment protections. That's why I'm counting on you to send an unmistakable message: we will stand together to protect women's rights and worker's rights, not the right of corporations to further their own agendas," the email stated.
Other Democratic candidates just asked for cash — using the decision as peg to express their support for women's health, abortion rights and contraception access.
"As a doctor, husband, and father of a daughter, I'm infuriated," wrote California Democrat Ami Bera's congressional campaign, asking for $5 or more. "I'm so stunned by this morning's ruling, I don't even know where to begin. This is why elections matter. In Congress, I fight every day for you and your family's right to private, personal healthcare choices, free of government or employer intrusions."
Rep. Scott Peters (D-Calif.) asked supporters to "please donate $5 or whatever you can to support our pro-choice campaign for San Diego."
"Today's Supreme Court decision is disgraceful," wrote Peters. "5 male justices just gave your boss the right to discriminate against women and deny them contraceptive coverage."
Rep. Julia Brownley (D-Calif.) tied the Hobby Lobby decision to House Speaker John Boehner and the agenda of House Republicans. "We simply cannot send John Boehner another candidate who would further this anti-woman agenda," she wrote. "Please use this personalized link to chip in any amount you can to make sure we have what it takes to hold onto this seat."
"As the husband of an OBGYN, I know the importance of women's healthcare," wrote John Foust, a Democrat running for Congress in northern Virginia. He went on to suggest a contribution of between "$5 and $250 to support our pro-choice campaign for Northern Virginia."
It's only natural for campaign committees to use these tactics, digital politics experts say. It's all part of engaging with die-hard supporters and making them feel part of the process.
"I think that it speaks to the power of online fundraising," said Josh Orton, the political director at the group Progressives United and an operative who has worked in digital politics.
Elizabeth Titus contributed to this report.


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Chemotherapies are cancer treatments that work by inducing lesions in the DNA of tumour cells in order to inhibit their proliferation. However, the body naturally tries to repair these lesions, and thus reduces the efficacy of chemotherapy. Blocking the mechanisms for DNA repair would help to potentiate chemotherapy by reducing the resistance of cells to treatment. A team of researchers directed by Frédéric Coin, Inserm Research Director at the Institute of Genetics and Molecular and Cellular Biology (IGBMC) in Strasbourg (a Joint Inserm/CNRS/University of Strasbourg Research Unit), has discovered a new drug that inhibits repair: spironolactone, which seems likely to be used in the very short term as an adjuvant to chemotherapy.
Their results are published in Chemistry & Biology.
UV rays, physical or chemical agents—the human body is constantly subject to environmental insults that cause more or less damage to our DNA. The body has therefore developed a whole system for proofreading and repair. Among these mechanisms, NER (Nucleotide Excision Repair) has been studied for several years by the researchers in a team led by Frédéric Coin and Jean-Marc Egly at IGBMC. This mechanism can thus detect a lesion, and then replace the damaged DNA fragment with an intact fragment.
Cytotoxic chemotherapy is aimed at blocking the division of malignant cells in order to prevent tumour growth. Included among the drugs used to treat many cancers such as colorectal, face and neck, testicular, bladder, ovarian and lung cancers are medications based on platinum. These drugs bind to cellular DNA, induce damage in the latter, and thus prevent its replication. Blocking DNA repair mechanisms, specifically NER activity, would help to potentiate chemotherapy by reducing the resistance of cells to the treatment.
The researchers at IGBMC therefore sought a drug that would inhibit NER activity. They thus tested over 1,200 therapeutic drugs and demonstrated the action of spironolactone, a drug already used for the treatment of hypertension, on NER activity. Specifically, the researchers showed that its action, when combined with that of platinum derivatives, caused a substantial increase in cytotoxicity for malignant colonic and ovarian cells.
Since spironolactone is already in use for other purposes, it does not require a new application for marketing authorisation, and its side-effects are already known. This result thus bodes very well for the rapid development of new chemotherapy protocols that include spironolactone.
© Inserm/ Frédéric Coin
Immunofluorescence labelling, 1 h after treatment, of XPC proteins (in red) and XPB proteins (in green) involved in NER activity. On the right, treatment with spironolactone induces rapid degradation of XPB, which explains its inhibition of NER.

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Olynthus ōlĭn´thəs [key], ancient city of Greece, on the peninsula of Chalcidice (now Khalkidhikí), NE of Potidaea. A league of Chalcidic cities grew up in the late 5th cent. BC, and Olynthus, as the head of this Chalcidian League, vigorously opposed the threats of Athens and Sparta. Athens captured the city and held it for a brief time. In 379 BC, Sparta defeated Olynthus and dissolved the league, which was, however, re-formed after the fall of Sparta. Olynthus had been allied with Philip II of Macedon against Athens, but, fearing Philip's power, sought Athenian aid. Philip attacked, and Demosthenes in his Olynthiac orations eloquently urged his fellow Athenians to aid the threatened city. Philip destroyed (348 BC) the city despite Athenian aid. Excavations at Olynthus have revealed the layout of the city.
See M. Gude, A History of Olynthus (1933); D. M. Robinson et al., Excavations at Olynthus (13 vol., 1929–50).
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I've just completed the "Boot Camp" part of the Supermarket Diet. I love it and have lost eight pounds so far! I'm starting the "Keep On Losing" section, but I'm confused: The diet is 1,500 calories a day, but the meals plus snack add up to only 1,400 calories a day. Where do I get my other 100 calories? Also, can you provide the calorie counts for the meals in Week One of Boot Camp? They don't seem to be in the Keep On Losing section, and I really enjoyed them.
--Paula Patterson, Florida
Hi, Paula. Thanks for your questions. Your extra 100 calories come from the daily "Calcium Break" -- any of the 100-calorie calcium-rich snacks listed (such as flavored yogurt, a banana, or two small cookies). These snacks are a vital part of the plan, not only bolstering the calories to 1,500 but also ensuring that you get enough calcium.
As for the Boot Camp meals, I didn't do a separate calorie count for each one; I simply made sure the total day worked out to a balanced 1,200 calories. On such a tight calorie count, some meals wind up being a little lower in calories, saturated fat, and sodium to balance out the "sink-your-teeth-into-them" meals (like pizza, salad, and beer). I didn't want people trying to mix and match the various meals because they could easily wind up with unbalanced days. However, as you've probably noticed, there are nutrition values for the Good Housekeeping triple-tested recipes, such as Trout with Cornmeal Crust and Spicy Corn Relish.
Just wait for the upcoming Good Housekeeping Supermarket Diet Cookbook: You'll get plenty of new meals with full nutrition information on calories, protein, carbohydrates, fat, saturated fat, fiber, cholesterol, and sodium.


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When Yahoo's new CEO, Marissa Mayer, addressed company employees Tuesday, she reportedly talked about making Yahoo part of people's everyday lives.
She didn't, however, explain how she plans to do that.
Industry analysts, though, were quick to say that now isn't necessarily the time for Mayer to lay out specifics of her turnaround plan. Now is the time to energize Yahoo's employees and investors. They're hoping that's exactly what Mayer did.
"Marissa Mayer did what she had to do in articulating the broad directions of a fresh strategy for Yahoo that is focused, understandable, appears to leverage the most important industry trends, and gives employees and stakeholders a reason to be optimistic," said Hadley Reynolds, an analyst at NextEra Research. "None of these things had been apparent prior to her arrival."
On Tuesday, Mayer reportedly held two meetings to accommodate employees in different time zones. Her goal was to let employees in on her strategy to turn around Yahoo, which has been struggling for market position and has experienced a leadership revolving door and an executive scandal.
The company did not release details of what Mayer said Tuesday. A Yahoo spokeswoman told Computerworld on Tuesday that the company will present some of its long-term strategies during a mid-October conference call to discuss its financial performance.
Despite Yahoo's efforts, word of Mayer's meetings has begun to leak out.
According to a report in All Things D, Mayer stuck to the big picture during her speech. The report said the CEO told employees she wants to focus on building a strong mobile platform, personalization and making Yahoo a part of people's everyday lives.
Reynolds said he had no problem with the reported lack of specifics that Mayer offered.
"The fact that she was not long on details is appropriate at this stage," he added. "She hasn't been on the scene long enough to be talking down in the weeds, and she shouldn't from the CEO seat in any event. The talent that she will be bringing in will have to own many of those details. They will need to talk about them within a quarter or two, but not right now."
However, Patrick Moorhead, an analyst at Moor Insights & Strategy, said he would have liked Mayer to fill in a few blanks.
"On the surface, what Mayer is describing is what a 1,000 Internet companies could describe," he said. "What will be vitally important is how Yahoo differentiates what they do in mobile ... and that's possible but not probable. They are a decade behind Google and Facebook. Very rarely does a company come behind after sitting out so long to become the leader."
He also called Mayer's plan to become part of people's lives an "audacious goal."
Brad Shimmin, an analyst with CurrentAnalysis, said convincing Yahoo's user base that the company is committed to mobility will be another challenge.
"I think original content is the key to Yahoo's future," he added. "The company doesn't have to become another Bloomberg or Time Warner in order to succeed here. It merely needs to weave excellent news, opinion, sports, etc., throughout its existing collaboration services to convince users to start their morning with Yahoo."
Shimmin also said Mayer did a good job outlining her plans to Yahoo employees without getting bogged down in details.
"I think, at this point, any effort that rallies the company's assets around a small set of relatable objectives, such as mobility and content, will result in an improved outlook for Yahoo," he said.


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When I first read about Drink & Learn history and cocktail classes with cocktail historian Elizabeth Pearce, it occurred to me that I might have missed the boat on a brilliant business idea.
Then it occurred to me that I should promptly go online and buy two tickets ($50 per person) to "The New Orleans Experience."
Held at the luxe, light-flooded Empire Bar at Broussard's in the French Quarter, this two-hour class begins with a refreshing cocktail made with lemonade, maraschino liqueur and crème de noyaux. Dubbed the Master Lemonadier, the drink is expertly crafted by New Orleans' favorite cantankerous master bartender Paul Gustings. Many locals know Gustings from his stints at Napoleon House and Tujague's.
We move on to a boozy second cocktail, the original Sazerac, made with cognac, Peychaud's Bitters and Herbsaint. An animated Pearce tells us the story behind the New Orleanian who invented the anise-flavored liquor Herbsaint as an alternative to the then-outlawed absinthe, and how during Prohibition he cleverly became a pharmacist, prescribing alcohol as a healing elixir. She instructs us to sip slowly, so we can compare and contrast with the next drink, the modern version of a Sazerac, which employs rye or American whiskey.
Throughout the class, Pearce stands in front of an LCD monitor flipping through historic photos, newspaper clippings and videos.
From start to finish, the experience features the history of New Orleans from its founding by the French in 1718, through its veritable avoidance of prohibition all the way up to … um, it gets a little hazy, so I'll have to consult my notes … OK, my notes are slightly incomprehensible scribbles; so let's talk about Pearce and her credentials for a moment while I try to jog my memory and decipher these notes.
A former curator at the Southern Food and Beverage Museum, and co-author of The French Quarter Drinking Companion, Pearce started Drink & Learn cocktail tours in 2012. "The Cocktail Tour," also $50 per person, winds through the French Quarter with stops at the Pharmacy Museum, Jackson Square, St. Louis Cathedral and the Port of New Orleans, while participants sip a St. Charles Hotel Punch, Sazerac, Hurricane and Praline Liquor. Pearce tells us during the 20-ish minute intermission that she started "The New Orleans Experience," at Broussard's in '13, as a way to tell additional and different stories than she offers in the tour, and also have an alternative class during hot summers and for those not keen on pounding the pavement, albeit at a leisurely pace and with tasty beverages.
After the break, we are lead to the punch bowl to sip a healthy pour of St. Charles Hotel Punch, which combines sugar, lemon juice, ruby port, Cognac and orange curacao. I have managed to translate my tipsily scrawled notes and if they're accurate, it seems at this point Pearce wows us with stories of the grand hotel, the history of punch and how a drunken nation finally came to the age of cocktails. We are now a drunken nation of two and before wobbling out onto Conti Street to hail a cab, we slurp down the most deeeeleeshous and furtafizing coattail … hiccup … of zthe dayz, a Ramosh Gem Furz [Ed. note: Ramos Gin Fizz].
Drink & Learn, 578-8280, DrinkAndLearn.com (Pearce is offering New Orleans Magazine readers $5 off each ticket with the promo code, NOLAMAG).


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This time round, l had the opportunity to handle the other Seiko 5 Sports model that I mentioned in my post titled "Update on Seiko 5 models in Singapore". As mentioned the post, this model does not have a rotating bezel like most Seiko 5 Sports models do. It is also has an unusual case design that is different from its Seiko 5 counterparts.
Let's take a look.
Shown below is the close up view of the dial. Since this is a motor sports model, it has some common racing features such as coloured strips on the minute chapter ring stretching from 12.00 to 4.00 o'clock as well as use of colour scheme (black and red in this case).
On top of that, the hour markers are shown in their respective minute reading instead of the usual hour reading. This is probably done to make it look like a tachometer or speedometer. However, when you switch off the light, you will find that the hour markers in minute format are not lumed.
Here's a quick lume shot.
The case structure reminds me of the Seiko Ananta although it is not exactly the same and is not finished to the same level.
By examining the watch, it looks like the case is made of two parts. The first part is cylindrical shaped and contains the dial and movement. Somehow, the lines on the side remind me of car engine piston.
The second part is of course the outer portion that consists of the lugs. Since there are no screws on its caseback, the two parts must be attached to each other by some other means. And unlike the Ananta, they cannot be detached.
Below are pictures of the case from various angles to give you a better idea.
Like most 7S Seiko 5 Sports model, the watch has a see-through caseback showing the 7S36 movement. You can see the magic lever in there too.
The watch is fitted with a rubber strap. This strap is a fairly new model that Seiko has started fitting on some of their Seiko 5 sports watches. It is made of the same rubber as the Z22 straps but feels softer because it is not as thick as the Z22.
Here are some pictures of the strap:
Long end – front
Long end – back
Short end – front
Short end – back
This watch is distributed in Singapore by Seiko distributor, Thong Sia Group. The list price of the watch is SGD301.80. As usual, price is mentioned for reference only. I am not a watch seller.
Diameter: 43.5mm excluding crown
Thickness 12.5mm approximately
Lug width 22mm
Water resistence: 100m
Seiko SNZH69K featured in this post is provided by:
Authorized Seiko/Thong Sia dealer
K2 Watch Company
845 Geylang Road, Tanjong Katong Complex
#03-K1. Singapore 400845
Tel: 6746 0270
56 thoughts on "Seiko 5 Motor Sports – SNZH69K"
This is a really gorgeous, interesting watch. I Googled it, hoping to find a place that's selling them, but only your site turned up. Do you know of any sellers?
Hi Thomas. Thank you very much for this excellent article and collection
of photographs of this Seiko 5 Sports. As there are so many watches out
there, I would have very easily missed your observation about the piston
ring theme. This piston ring look plus the racing car dial look go together
and make this watch an excellently designed watch.
Thus, when you add the design, the good worksmanship, and the
great price, you have a winner, beating many of the much higher priced
watches. This watch may be a Seiko winner. May I suggest, we call it
"The Piston".
Once again, thank you for the excellent photos, the very astute observations.
Hey, in future posts, can you show the watches on your wrist, and let us know how big your wrist is. Thanks mucho. I still really like this watch. It's the first Seiko I've seen in a while that's gotten my attention. I currently have four Orients and an Alba.
Great looking watch! Singapore's lucky streak on Seiko releases continues, as they have been on the receiving end of some great releases the past couple of months.
Misread your comment, I thought it was for the SNZH69K, and not realized it was for SNZH57K. Yeah its been reported just today in the Philippine thread in WUS that there have already been sightings of the SNZH57K (in different color bezels) in Seiko stores within Manila.
Thanks for the info still and taking the time to read the PWC forum.
Just bought this watch on ebay for 129 USD. it's a beauty!
what is the seller's name of "the piston" you have bought… i'm also looking at it but i can't find one…
but if yeoman was right about the dealer at SG… maybe i can drop by to purchase this unique watch…
brought this last week at k2 😉
i kena seiko virus….still looking out for 'big' seiko watches…any good intro?
looking for above 43mm
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Thank u so very much for the beautiful pictures of the "piston"… In fact they were so good, that I ordered a SNZH69J1 (the "made in Japan" model?!) today. Looking forward to receive this beauty!!!
Kind regards from Schwäbisch Gmünd / Germany (small town near Stuttgart),
Great review! Believe it or not, but you impressed me so much with this Seiko "Piston" that I have immediately ordered one myself!
I can hardly wait for this beauty to arrive!!
Kind Regards from The Netherlands,
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you can buy that at K2 Tanjong Pagar Complex… it's really beautiful… i was there last week…!
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I just bought one of these from amazon… Superb watch at an excellent price! Keeping excellent time too… about 3 seconds a day!
Loving my piston!
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hi sir,i am looking for a replacement strap..its a zulu maratac silicon rubber strap..i was wondering what size should i buy? is it 20mm or 22mm?really need help here..
Thanks for the great review! I'm now the proud new owner of a Seiko 5 "Piston". Put some pics up at https://plus.google.com/photos/113632953937239155827/albums/5646129678852003857
I went for the SNZH63, and searched far and wide for the Japanese model SNZH63J1. It's a beautiful watch, and attracted comments on the first day I wore it.
Check it out the new Steinhart Apollon: http://wornandwound.com/2011/09/06/steinhart-apollon/
Do you think they might have drawn inspiration for it's interchangeable bezel from the Seiko Piston? Perhaps it should be nicknamed the "Steinhart Piston"? 🙂
Even the grip on the crown has similarities…
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Family, investigator question 'pizza bomber' movie
PITTSBURGH – When the comedy "30 Minutes or Less" opens in theaters Friday, one small group of people will be sure to avoid it.
That would be the surviving family members of Brian Wells, the 46-year-old pizza delivery driver who was killed when a metal bomb collar he was forced to wear while robbing a bank exploded in Pennsylvania eight years ago.
The movie's handlers acknowledge the screenwriters were "vaguely" aware of Wells, but say the movie — in which two ne'er-do-wells force a pizza driver to rob a bank while wearing a time bomb vest — isn't based on the infamous Pennsylvania collar-bomb case, and especially Wells' grisly, tragic death.
Still, Wells' sister, Jean Heid of Erie, said the movie isn't funny — whether or not it was inspired by her brother's sad fate.
"It's hard for me to grasp how other human beings can take delight and pride in making such a movie and consider it a comedy," Heid said in an e-mailed response to The Associated Press. Heid asked to respond by e-mail because she wanted to choose her words carefully. "I don't think it's funny to laugh at the innocent who are victimized by criminals, who care nothing for human life."
"Neither the filmmakers nor the stars of '30 Minutes or Less' were aware of this crime prior to their involvement in the film," Steve Elzer, the senior vice president who handles media relations for Sony Pictures' Columbia TriStar Motion Picture Group, said in a statement. "The writers were vaguely familiar with what had occurred and wrote an original screenplay that does not mirror the real-life tragedy."
Screenwriters Michael Diliberti and Matt Sullivan didn't respond to requests for comment through their agent. But, based on its madcap theatrical trailer, it appears the film doesn't mirror the Wells case beyond the pizza-bomber plot device or go anywhere near paralleling Wells' death.
It's still too close for comfort for some people, however.
Jerry Clark, 50, the since-retired FBI agent who led the investigation after watching the bomb kill Wells from 30 feet away, said he watched the trailer for "30 Minutes or Less" because "I was so curious myself."
"Having been on the scene the day that it happened and watching the device detonate, linking that with a comedy, that's sort of difficult for me to comprehend," said Clark, who is co-writing a book on the case with Erie Times-News reporter Ed Palattella.
The movie is unlikely to offend anyone unless they're intimately familiar with Wells or the criminal case — like Heid or Clark, said Paul Dergarabedian, president of the Box Office Division of Hollywood.com and a movie business analyst for the AP.
"It's not that there's so much a desensitizing" of the culture, Dergarabedian said. "I think many people may just not be aware of the case."
In February, Heid repeated some of her brother's last words when she addressed a federal judge in Erie at the sentencing of Marjorie Diehl-Armstrong, 62, the mentally ill woman considered by prosecutors to be the key player in the plot.
In the moments before the bomb detonated on Aug. 28, 2003, Wells sat handcuffed in a parking lot near the bank, waiting for a bomb squad to arrive as he pleaded with police.
"'I don't have a lot of time. It's gonna go off. I'm not lying. When is someone gonna come and get this thing off of me?'" Heid said, quoting her brother's words, his plea captured on television news video.
Wells was wearing an oversized T-shirt that largely obscured the blue metal collar before it exploded, blowing a softball-sized hole in his chest, killing him instantly. The grotesque, unedited news footage can still be found online.
Barely two months after Wells was killed, his family had to deal with the image when numerous Erie children were seen trick-or-treating in homemade "pizza bomber" costumes complete with oversized shirts and fake bomb collars.
In the following years, TV crime dramas featured neck-bomb episodes or thinly veiled allusions to the case, including CBS' "Criminal Minds," NBC's "Law & Order: Criminal Intent" and the pilot for another short-lived NBC series, "Heist" in 2006.
The case also prompted more serious treatment by CNN, ABC and "America's Most Wanted." The family welcomed some coverage that questioned the government's view that Wells was a conspirator but duped into thinking the collar bomb would be a decoy and forced to wear a real one at gunpoint.
The family's insistence that Wells was an innocent "bomb hostage" is mirrored in the comedy.
Still, Heid said, "I have no interest in seeing this movie. How would you feel if it were your family member being made fun of?"


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By Suzanne Kelly
Nada Bakos used to go work with a Glock strapped to her thigh. The former targeting officer for the CIA started her intelligence career as an analyst in 2000. But then September 11 happened.
"Everybody's life changed," said Nada Bakos, who, like many other women who were serving as analysts prior to 9/11, moved to the counterterrorism and eventually made the switch to the operations side, which meant she wasn't just analyzing the data on the bad guys, she was going after them.
She didn't yet have a family when she accepted her assignment as a targeting officer in Iraq, working alongside special forces in the hunt for the now-deceased terrorist Abu Musab al-Zarqawi. She won't share the details of exactly what she did to help find him, but she saw definite advantages to being a woman in the arena, noting that she sometimes had a very different experience than her male counterparts when it came to working within the norms of the culture.
"I got a completely different response than the men did," said Bakos, describing one particular effort to gather information. "How is a 26-year-old white male gonna walk up to a woman in the Middle East and say 'Hey, why don't you talk to me?' "
After a couple of years, Bakos realized that she knew more about Zarqawi than she did about many of the other men in her life. That, in part, was a wake up call to do something more: She wanted to start a family. But she was deep into her career on the operations side. That was a problem."The difference between men and women is that it's really hard for women to live the lifestyle of a case officer," said Bakos. "If you have a significant other, it's hard for you both to be employed. I was 37 then and I can't really say, 'Hey, let's interrupt your career and you can carve out what you need."
At least 160 other women feel her pain. Women from the CIA, the National Security Agency, Naval Office of Intelligence and dozens of other agencies met last week in a hotel conference room in McLean, Virginia, to try and find a better way.
The "women in national security" conference was sponsored by Working Mother Media. Carol Evans, president of that group, noted the unique environment in which these women compete.
"These women work in a very unusual industry," said Evans. "National Security is still a very heavily male industry and many of these women as they will say throughout the day, are oftentimes the first in their field to be a woman - the only person in the room who's a woman. So when we bring women together in an industry like this, they just feed off of each other, they catch each other's energy, and they build relationships."
And relationship-building while navigating a career in intelligence and national security is key, according to Letitia Long, the only female director of any of the 16 intelligence agencies that make up the intelligence community in this country.
Long, the director of the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency spoke at the conference. She insists that work-life balance is something she has to work at every day.
"I'm passionate about what I do, so I often want to stay to do that last e-mail or sign that last memo, or ensure that I'm prepared for the next day. But we do have to remind ourselves that if we are going to be at the top of our game, if we are going to be rested and ready to lead, we have to take that step away and ensure we are keeping that work life balance," Long said in an interview with Security Clearance. "These are some of the stressful, some of the most stressful positions that are in the work force and if we are able to balance this, then perhaps there are some secrets that we can share with others so that they can balance also."
Long said that part of the stress is dealing with a culture at the agencies that needs to change.
At the agency Long heads, the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency, women make up about 31% of the workforce, and the attrition rate is slightly higher than that of men. As director of the Agency, Long feels that balance has to change if the country is going to build a stronger, more diverse, national security workforce.
"I do notice that women bring a different perspective when we're talking about the National Geospatial Intelligence Agency and our core mission, of GEOINT, as men and women are looking at imagery, they see things differently," said Long. "We all are a product of our background and our upbringing and women will just tend to notice different things in an image than men will. Or if we're looking at pattern of activity, they might notice something that a man might not and vice versa. A man will notice something that a woman will not, because they don't see it as important or they don't see it as relevant, yet something that's not relevant today, might be relevant tomorrow."
The Deputy Director of the Defense Intelligence Agency, David Shedd, agrees. With women making up close to 35% of his employees, he sees the distintive advantages of finding a workforce more in balance when it comes to women.
"Women as a rule tend to have stronger intuitive skills and in the world of intelligence, where you are often dealing with less than perfect information, that intuitive nature is important," said Shedd. "Men tend to be more fact-based."
Shedd also offered advice to the women attending the conference. When a woman from the NSA stood up and told him that she personally struggles with how effective she is at her job because when she makes an unpopular decision, instead of being seen as a strong leader, she is referred to as a word that rhymes with 'witch,' he agreed that some misperceptions still exist.
"As a man, I can tell you when no women are around, men still say that type of woman, you used the 'witch' word, but the man, he's just strong-willed and strong-minded," said Shedd. "I am very familiar with that. Changing the culture is critical."
Shedd advocates for women in intel to build a strong team of mentors and then to call on them often and to set clear goals, not being afraid to show their ambition in finding what comes next in their careers.
Bakos, the former spy mom with the Glock, is on that path now. She retired from the Agency and is looking for consulting work.
She still feels like she has much to offer. "I think there has to be a better way," said Bakos, who advocates for changing the culture within the intelligence community, to help allow women to live both lives.
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[Reporters: Nicolas Vérité and Peter Saint-Andre]
Welcome to the 9th edition of the XMPP Roundup, the periodic stream of news and events in the XMPP universe.
New and updated software
Wokkel 0.6.0
Ralph Meijer has announced Wokkel 0.6.0, a set of XMPP tools on top of the Python Twisted framework.
PySoy game engine
PySoy is a 3d game engine including networking support being based around XMPP for player chat and server discovering, Jingle ICE-UDP for network games. It is released under the AGPLv3 license.
XMPPLogger is a small Perl utility written under the BSD license that listens on a FIFO and sends every line to the given XMPP/Jabber account(s).
Mojo Messaging Service: PubSub by Palm
In a article titled "Palm to Introduce Push Services", pre central notes:
When the Mojo SDK is broadly released later this year, it will include a developer-facing offering called the Mojo Messaging Service, an XMPP publish/subscribe service. The Mojo Messaging Service is an elegant, standards-based way to exchange information over the Internet. When new information is available, it is "published" to the cloud and all interested parties who are subscribers are notified that new information is available. This will allow developers to push live content to their applications or services. The Mojo Messaging Service initially will have a limited feature set and service level that will evolve over time.
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xBookmarks stands for "XMPP bookmarks", it is a Firefox extension that implements XEP-0048 so that a user having an XMPP account can store all of his bookmarks in one place and can retrieve them from anywhere. xBookmarks needs xmpp4moz.
Babylon is a Ruby framework for XMPP applications, written under the MIT license and currently available in a "pre-0.1" version.
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The WordPress.com firehose is designed for partners like search engines and market intelligence providers who would like to ingest a real-time stream of new WordPress.com posts and comments the second they get published. The firehose is XMPP based and can be accessed s2s (server-to-server) or c2s (client-to-server).
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firstname.lastname@example.com is a Jabber bot that seeks the feeling expressed in blogs worldwide. More information on the blog post.
What Can You Do with XMPP?
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- XEP-0124: Bidirectional-streams Over Synchronous HTTP (BOSH) was updated to correct the XML schema and incorporate technical discussions held at XMPP Summit 6 in February
- XEP-0267: Server Rosters and XEP-0268: Incident Reporting were published, also as a result of discussions held at XMPP Summit 6 in February
- XEP-0266: Codecs for Jingle RTP Sessions was updated with information about the Dirac codec for video
- XEP-0238: XMPP Protocol Flows for Inter-Domain Federation and XEP-0154: User Profile have been deferred because of inactivity
A final word
XMPP's ubiquity shows even more after months pass.


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If politics is show business for ugly people (which, by the way, it's not, not this time, not the ugly-people part anyway, not with a cast of characters as glossy as Mitt Romney, Rick Perry, Michele Bachmann, Sarah Palin's ghost, and Barack Obama), is Occupy Wall Street the Tea Party for liberal people? Or, at least, for people who generally prefer a Democratic lesser evil to a Republican greater one?
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From the start, Democratic politicians and their center-left institutional allies watched the Tea Party with, besides fear and loathing, a certain professional envy. After Obama sailed into office on the biggest popular-vote majority in twenty years, Republicans were left treading water. A few months later, the Tea Party came along to pick them up, dry them off, give them a new suit of clothes, and set them on a starboard course to victory in the 2010 midterms. The rescue wasn't free of charge, of course. The cost, to the country as well as to the sad remnants of moderate Republicanism, has been high. But there's no denying the potency of whatever it was that the brave new party injected into the scarred veins of the grand old one.
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The Tea Party is simply better adapted to—and, despite its angry face, less alienated from—the actually existing environment of American politics and government. Its purported fear of coöption didn't stop it from accepting millions of dollars (and offers of "training") from Astroturf outfits like the Koch brothers' Americans for Prosperity and Dick Armey's FreedomWorks, while Fox News and talk radio provided it with a ready-made apparatus for organizing and propaganda. The Tea Party has never doubted the efficacy of elections; it has focussed on officeholders and would-be officeholders all along. The paradigmatic Tea Party activity, in the summer of 2009, was to pack a local congressman's "town hall" and shout imprecations against Obamacare. By 2010 it was all electoral politics, all the time. And all Republican: Tea Partiers helped hard-right novices defeat scores of "establishment" candidates in Republican primaries for federal, state, and local offices. The net effect on the November outcome was uncertain—though the Tea Party "energized the base" everywhere, some of its recruits were so extremist they blew winnable races—but the impact on Republican governance, if that's the right word, was unmistakable.
On Capitol Hill, obstructionism descended into nihilism. Absent the Tea Party, a routine debt-ceiling squabble would never have metastasized into a terrifying episode of hostage-taking. Nor would a lineup of Republican Presidential candidates have unanimously rejected a debate moderator's hypothetical debt-reduction deal of ten dollars in spending cuts for every dollar in increased revenue. Nor would those candidates now be desperately outdoing one another with brutish demands for ever more tax relief for zillionaires. Nor, one suspects, would Republican governors and state legislatures be so brazenly enacting laws designed to prevent millions of voters with Democratic-leaning demographic profiles—such as voters who do not possess certain government-issued photo I.D.s—from exercising the franchise.
The paradigmatic activity of Occupy Wall Street and its many offshoots around the country was the establishment of impromptu encampments in symbolic public places. Now it's mostly housekeeping, physical and spiritual. The Occupiers' Web presence is impressive; its improvisatory openness has helped the movement go globally viral. On the ground, though, most of the protesters' time and energy goes into site maintenance and into a rolling encounter-group-style mélange of meetings formal and informal. But, for all its inwardness and self-contemplation, the movement has achieved one obvious, and stunning, outward success. It has pierced the veil of silence that, for decades, has obscured the astounding growth of what can fairly be called plutocracy. Public opinion is beginning to realize that there are hard truths behind the Occupiers' "99 per cent." Last Tuesday, a CBS News/New York Times poll found that two-thirds of Americans agree that the nation's bounty is unfairly distributed. The same day, that view got support from an unexpected quarter with the release of a Congressional Budget Office report, jointly commissioned several years ago by the Democratic and Republican leaders of the Senate Finance Committee. The report affirmed that the after-tax income of the richest one per cent has nearly tripled since the eve of the nineteen-eighties, while the share of the least affluent eighty per cent has fallen—and that the declining progressivity of the tax code is part of the reason.
For O.W.S., though, there is danger ahead. Winter is coming. The strategy of static outdoor encampments is straining the patience even of sympathetic mayors in cities like Oakland, where last week riot police stormed the site and a Marine veteran was left in critical condition. If the weather and the cops pare the numbers in the camps, it's far from unimaginable that ideologues in the mold of the Old New Left—people for whom the problem is "capitalism" per se, as opposed to a political economy rigged to benefit the rich at the expense of the rest—could end up dominant. As it is, the Occupiers' brand of romantic participatory democracy can too easily render their decision-making vulnerable to a truculent few. In the most notorious example, Representative John Lewis, the revered civil-rights hero, was prevented from speaking at Occupy Atlanta—not because the crowd didn't want to hear from him (the great majority did, as they signalled, in the movement's semaphore language, with raised hands and wiggling fingers) but because one man clenched his fists and crossed his forearms, thereby exercising a consensus-breaking "block." A vegan filibuster, you might say. The pollsters tell us that Americans like O.W.S.'s essential message. They like the Occupiers, too—not as much as they like the message, but more than they like the Tea Party. But if the pressures of hypothermia, frustration, and correcter-than-thou one-upmanship converge to push them toward more provocative, less mellow forms of civil disobedience—"occupying" a nice warm state capitol building, for example—the messengers will mess up the message. And the public will cross its fists.
Unlike the Tea Party, which was born when the alien/socialist enemy held all three of Washington's elected redoubts, Occupy Wall Street inhabits a different political world, one whose most prominent figure, the President, has fallen short of not only many Occupiers' hopes but also his own—in large part because of the Republicans' conscienceless exploitation of the perverse veto points of the congressional machine. Yes, O.W.S. has "changed the conversation." But talk, however necessary, is cheap. Ultimately, inevitably, the route to real change has to run through politics—the politics of America's broken, god-awful, immutably two-party electoral system, the only one we have. The Tea Partiers know that. Do the Occupiers? ♦


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Terry Marotta: The fun of the high school reunion
Let's honor one more late-autumn passage before we head into the clash and tinkle of the holidays.
I mean the time-honored high school reunion, so often held in the days just after Thanksgiving.
Who under 90 does not anticipate this event without a twinge of apprehension? For in high school we were all so young, and undefended against the judgment of our peers.
I opened my old yearbook and felt it all again.
"To Terry: Never forget Chemistry!!" someone wrote next to his picture, and the fact that I never took a single day of chemistry in my life bothered me not at all. He had called me Terry, and added exclamation points.
"Best of luck to a swell kid," wrote somebody else, but was I ever that?
I remember being a timid kid, despite all my gay chatter as I strode along the hallways, my textbooks clutched tight to my chest.
I know I was an anxious and an earnest kid, thrilled to be singing in the chorus, and the special chorus, thrilled to be acting in the odd old-fashioned plays our ancient Miss Casey chose to be put on by us drama nerds.
I was thrilled even to be part of the European culture club where we ignored grainy slides of Paris while whispering in the back of the room.
These were "activities," what they told us we would need in order to advance in life.
I also remember that in the "slam book" where people were expected to write blunt and candid things about each other I had been called a "poser." I didn't know what the word even meant and had to ask that girl at my lunch table.
When she explained I thought," It's true! I am a poser!" and for the rest of the year hung my head as often as I held it high.
But all that is ancient history now.
In 2006 my class put on a jam-packed reunion, complete with a tour of the old school, a pub night, and tickets to Saturday's game, all before the big dinner in the hotel ballroom.
With my old reticence again in full flower, I managed only to attend that last event, where I didn't even dance but instead lurked over by the coffee next to the fresh-faced yearbook pictures of Classmates Now Deceased.
This time I wanted to do things differently.
And so last spring when the 2011 event was announced, I joined the reunion committee.
I knew only a few people on it.
But even if I had known them all and they me, who would we have known really, all of us being so young, all posers in our way, "faking it to make it" in that looming grownup world?
I marveled at the two committee members who searched and called and searched some more until they had found almost all of our 800-plus classmates, and could practically recite each one's street address and circumstance.
I loved all our meetings, in rainy spring, and swoony June and ripening autumn.
And when the big night came it was more than great.
I talked with Rob and Debby, with Dick and Frank and Sam, with Jane and Cheryl and Allison.
Mike I get to see often but Ilona I hadn't laid eyes on since graduation.
Coming up to me that night she said, "Terry! I knew you right away - after adjusting for the maturation factor of course."
So candor lives, but so does kindness.
My new resolve:
To go to all future reunions and talk to everyone.
To leave the dead in their corner by the coffee, and to dance.
Write Terry at email@example.com or P.O. Box 270, Winchester, MA 01890. After the weekend look on her blog Exit Only for more tales and pictures too (www.terrymarotta.wordpress.com).


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SYNOPSIS: Parapsychologists try to make an inn haunted by an evil witch's ghost safe for guests. REVIEW: From Kevin Tenney, the writer and director of Night of the Demons, comes this pile of viscera titled Witchtrap. The usual suspects are present here: Linnea Quigley shows up in a minor role where she disrobes, James W. Quinn is the hero Tony …Read More »
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What's more American than apple pie? Pecan pie. The world's first apple tree grew in Asia millennia ago. But the pecan tree is a native American. How appropriate, then, that pecans enjoy a place of honor on the table at Thanksgiving, a deeply homegrown holiday.
But hold the whipped cream. Pecan pie is expensive this year! Where I live in Austin, Texas, pecan pies are clearing $20 each at bakeries around town. In coastal cities like New York and San Francisco, where labor and overhead are higher, a 9-inch pie can set a pilgrim back as much as $34. Even at these prices, bakeries are selling pecan pies at a loss. Why so costly?
The cost of pecans is fully exposed to the economic push and pull of supply and demand—the government doesn't support pecan prices the way it does sugar prices, for instance. So when the most populous country in the world suddenly developed an insatiable and totally unprecedented hunger for pecans, demand skyrocketed. The price of pecans did, too.
James McWilliams (an occasional Slate contributor) tells the story in his new book, The Pecan: A History of America's Native Nut. The year was 2006, and the scene was a food trade show in Paris. An official from New Mexico's Department of Agriculture introduced a group of Chinese buyers to pecans, an important crop for that state. "The Chinese cracked them open, sampled them, and were intrigued—so intrigued," writes McWilliams, "that they traveled to New Mexico to meet growers, tour orchards, and discuss tentative contracts." At the time, China didn't import any pecans, and it didn't (still doesn't) grow any, either. No one in China ate pecans.
And yet, after only a couple of years and a bit of savvy marketing, a craze for pecans had gripped the Chinese like quinoa in California. Advertisements touted their antioxidants, claiming them capable of extending life and fending off Alzheimer's. China's exploding middle class has disposable income and considers the pecan a snack worth splurging on. The Chinese now eat pecans like we eat pistachios—partially shelled and brined, then roasted for extra salty-crunchy goodness.
By 2009 China had gone from not having a word for "pecan" to importing 83 million pounds—a quarter of the U.S. crop. With a public willing to pay between $10 and $15 a pound, importers began actively courting pecan growers in other states, like Georgia and Texas. "In 2005," writes McWilliams, "pecans were a novelty item in China. Today they can be found, as one newspaper reports, 'at gas stations, airports, and every grocery store in China.'"
What does that mean for American pecan growers? Jake Montz planted his first pecan trees in 1987 and now grows some 25,000 trees' worth on his farm in Wichita Falls, Texas. These days about 25 percent of his crop goes to China. He sells another quarter in his own two nut shops, and the remainder goes to a shelling company that will, in turn, sell the nutmeats to grocery stores and companies that manufacture ice cream and breakfast cereals.
Conditions this year have squeezed his supply even more than usual. Severe drought in Texas has stretched on for three years now, and the pecan trees have suffered. Making matters worse, three late freezes decimated this year's crop. But he still has to pay his ever-rising costs—fuel, electricity, equipment, labor. Fortunately, high demand both domestically and from China means prices are high. "I'd rather have a big crop and sell them a little cheaper," says Montz. Unfortunately, that's not happening this year.
Professional bakers would love for pecans to be a little cheaper, too. In the mid-1990s, my local bakery, Texas French Bread, sold pecan pies for $10 to $12 each ($15 to $18 in today's dollars). Today, owner Murph Willcott pays more than $11 a pound for the fancy pecan halves that go into pies he can afford to sell only at Thanksgiving. Chopped nuts, usually sold as "pieces," would be cheaper, but the pies wouldn't look as nice. "The halves are prettier," he says, "so we try to use them." Willcott also values the freshest nuts. Though some bakers use nuts that are a year or two old, he says, "What you want is the one that's just been shelled, that is really beautiful and perfect. Those are really hard to find at this point." As a pecan ages, with or without its shell, it loses moisture and thus plumpness. An old pecan just isn't as pretty as a fresh pecan, and pretty matters—especially when people are paying more than $20 for a pie.
Willcott's pecan pies will sell for $22 this year, but that won't cover the cost of making them. "So we'll eat it on that one," he says, "and our margin won't be what we want it to be. But we'll make them anyway." Another Austin bakery, Walton's Fancy and Staple, has addressed pecans' soaring cost by pricing all its Thanksgiving pies at $22. This way, the lower cost of producing pies made with ingredients that happen to be cheaper—pumpkin, for instance—helps offset the more expensive pecan. But even using this strategy, Walton's has had to raise prices over the past several years, says culinary director Justin Raiford.
What does the pecan boom mean for people who bake their own pies? In 2008 pecans retailed for $3.50 a pound, according to McWilliams. In 2010 they were up to $6.95. Now, at my local grocery store, I pay $10.99 for pecan halves and $9.99 for pieces. My pecan pie recipe calls for three-quarters of a cup of each.
That means pecans are now the most expensive item when I prorate the prices on my ingredient list. Butter comes next (we use organic), then the corn syrup (don't judge me before you taste my pie), and maple syrup (Vermont's a long way away). When I add it all up, I find it will cost me $11.73 to make a pecan pie from scratch. Of course, we'll have to double that at Thanksgiving. One pecan pie is never enough.


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With the official exhaustion of IPv4 open-pool addresses in February, the long migration path to IPv6 has passed another important milestone. Since the IANA IPv6 worldwide deployment announcement in 1999, the issue has never been whether, but simply when IPv6 would become the core protocol for global Internet traffic.
Quiz: How prepared are you for IPv6?
The low percentage of actual IPv6 deployments, to date less than 10% worldwide, lags behind early estimates that predicted full adoption of IPv6 as the dominant Internet protocol by the end of 2007. Factors in delayed deployments include unfamiliarity with the protocol, cost and security concerns, a lack of trained personnel, and a shortage of carrier-grade IPv6 bandwidth providers.
The reality is that even in optimistic scenarios, IPv6 is not likely to become the dominant protocol in the immediate future. With finite IT resources, data center managers may be reluctant to push seemingly optional IPv6 initiatives to management as a 'hair on fire' priority. But a decision to wait could mean higher costs and more deployment headaches later. (IPv6 deployment misperception: Enterprises aren't deploying IPv6.)
As with most emerging technologies that are destined for widespread adoption, at some point critical mass will be reached and by tacit universal agreement the move to IPv6 will accelerate geometrically, leaving organizations who have bet wrong on the timing scrambling to catch up. The takeaway is that even companies with no immediate plans to deploy IPv6 should have a full grasp of the technology, its operational impacts, and at the very least, a viable, well-designed transition plan.
Here are six steps to take now to get ready for IPv6:
1. Request an IPv6 prefix from your upstream provider or RIR
Start by requesting an IPv6 PA (Provider-Assigned) prefix from your bandwidth provider. Even if you don't plan to immediately deploy IPv6 on public-facing hosts, it's important to know if your ISP can deliver IPv6 connectivity. PA prefixes are typically provided at no charge. If a PA prefix is not available, ask for timelines. If the answers are unsatisfactory (e.g. your provider has no plans for IPv6 migration or cannot specify a delivery schedule), you may want to consider beginning the search for an IPv6-capable host.
Qualified organizations may also purchase a PI (Provider-Independent) prefix, which is usually assigned by a RIR (Regional Internet Registry). PI addresses are not host-specific and will allow you to change hosts, but a PI address by itself does not eliminate the need for an IPv6-capable host.
2. Conduct a simple IPv6 'Hello World' test
Even if your current bandwidth provider doesn't provide IPv6 service, you can still begin testing on your internal LAN or WAN. IPv4 and IPv6 protocols, while not directly interoperable, can co-exist in a dual-stack, parallel configuration and are already doing so in some form on most networks. This provides an excellent environment for testing.
The following dual-stack 'Hello World" example uses just two machines (one Windows 2008 IIS/DNS server and one Windows 7 client) and is fast and easy to configure.
On a Windows 2008 Server running IIS and DNS:
IPv4 Node
1. Set up a new website in IIS. Bind the site to any unallocated local IPv4 address. If you need an extra IPv4 address, assign an unused address from your subnet to the local interface prior to configuring the website. (DNS is not required for the first two sets of connectivity tests).
2. Save the following text in a file in the home directory of the new website named 'index.html':
Hello World
3. Confirm that you can view the page in the server's browser using the IPv4 address assigned (ex: http://192.168.0.1).
4. Add a new, static IPv6 address to the LAN interface (for test purposes only, you can get a randomly-generated local IPv6 address at sites like https://www.ultratools.com/tools/rangeGenerator). Note that the prefix of a Unique Local Address (ULA) begins with fd. Use a subnet prefix length of 64 as shown in Figure 1. Use the server's IPv6 address for the Preferred DNS server. (The server's IPv6 address may be obtained by issuing an ipconfig command at a command prompt.)
5. Open a browser window on the server and type the IPv6 address into the location bar, using the static IPV6 address you just added to the interface with following (bracketed) syntax:
You should now see the same 'Hello World' screen you saw in Step 2.
6. Configure IPv6 connectivity on the Windows 7 client machine. This can be done by opening the IPv6 configuration dialog (similar to figure 1 above) and entering either a random IPv6 address or the IPv6 address of the Windows 7 machine, which you can obtain by running IPConfig in the command window. For the default gateway, enter the IPv6 address assigned to the server in step 4. You should now be able to open a browser and access the 'Hello World' page exactly as in step 5.
Configuring DNS
To enable the test for 'dual-stack' domain name resolution using IPv4, under DNS you would add a Forward Lookup Zone as usual with an A record mapped to the 'Hello World' website IPv4 address. To enable IPv6 for the same example, add a quad-A (AAAA) record as shown in Figure 2.
3. Analyze protocol differences and perform an impact analysis.
The differences between IPv4 and IPv6 are significant (see Table 1 - IPv4/IPv6 Side-by-Side Comparison).
The impact of the migration to IPv6 tends to increase with the size of the organization, thus larger enterprises need more lead time for planning deployments. Consider assembling a task force to assess impacts and make recommendations.
4. Prioritize the order of IPv6 deployments.
A direct switch from IPv4 to native IPv6 is the exception and not the rule, because of the relatively small number of native IPv6 hosts and upstream providers. In order to provide maximum availability of network resources (both internal and Internet-facing), many organizations choose a transition strategy that employs dual-stack nodes together with tunneling protocols or other translation mechanisms between IPv4 and IPv6 nodes where dual-stack is not feasible.
Here's an example of a rollout strategy designed to lessen the impact of the transition to IPv6. Naturally, organizations will need to consider multiple factors when devising their own deployment plans.
• Phase I - deploy Internet-facing services (web and e-mail) with dual-stack nodes and tunneling/translation mechanisms for bridging IPv4/IPv6 'islands'
• Phase II - migrate LAN/WAN from stateless (automatic) to stateful (configured) IPv6
• Phase III - identify and upgrade non-IPv6 equipment/applications
Phase I -- deploy Internet-facing services (web and e-mail) with dual-stack architecture. As shown in the 'Hello World' example above, dual-stack involves running parallel IPv4 and IPv6 nodes. This is typically achieved by adding a configured, routable IPv6 address and allowing requesting devices to choose automatically whether to route requests to IPv4 or IPv6. It should be noted that this approach, while simplifying the addition of IPv6 nodes, does not reduce the dependence on unique IPv4 addresses and should be replaced by IPv6-only services as soon as feasible. It is also important to note that Internet-facing dual-stack nodes may introduce perceived performance issues for Internet users due to IPv6 timeouts when there is a lack of available upstream IPv6 routes.
Where indicated, tunneling or other translation methods can be used to deliver traffic between IPv4-only and IPv6-only hosts. Some tunneling methods may pose security risks, so it is important to understand how each one operates and when to allow/disallow traffic from tunneled sources.
Scariest IPv6 attack scenarios
Implementing e-mail in dual-stack mode may require configuration changes on the SMTP server, such as adding a port to listen on an IPv6 address, and providing an IPv6 Internet range. DNS quad-A records are also required, together with MX records that resolve to an IPv6-capable host. As with other tests, it is advisable to use a non-production machine.
Phase II - migrate LAN/WAN from stateless to stateful IPv6. Most current operating systems ship with support for stateless (autoconfiguration) IPv6:
• Linux (kernel 2.2 and higher)
• Mac OS X
• FreeBSD/NetBSD/OpenBSD
• Windows Server 2000/2003/ 2008; Windows XP/7
In autoconfiguration or stateless mode, IPv6 link-local addresses are assigned to devices automatically without the need for server management. This means that the moment the OS is switched on, the device automatically has a discoverable IPv6 address. Stateful (configured) mode uses Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol for IPv6 (DHCPv6) for the installation and administration network nodes. Previous OS versions may have limited IPv6 stateful capabilities. For example, Windows Server 2003 requires DHCP in order to enable IPv6 stateful services.
Phase III - Identify and upgrade non-IPv6 equipment and applications. This step is necessary before you can switch wholesale to native IPv6 across the board. If you operate a large network, it may be necessary to utilize a third-party application specifically designed to identify IPv6 connectivity limitations, such as IPv4 dependence.
5. Create an addressing plan
Addressing space has increased exponentially in IPv6 with more than a billion possible addresses for every human being on the planet. The vast number of unique addresses eliminates subnetting conflicts and allows organizations to freely formulate flexible addressing schemes according to physical or logical groups within the organization, or to use configured random addresses for increased host privacy.
IPv6 supports the following address types:
• Multicast - sends packets to all interfaces that are part of a multicast group, represented by the IPv6 destination address of the packet; allows for aggregation of routing prefixes to limit the number of global routing table entries
• Anycast - sends packets to a single interface associated with the address, typically routed to the nearest node
• Unicast - identifies a single interface
• Global aggregatable - allows for aggregation of routing prefixes to limit the number of global routing table entries
• Link-Local - allows communications between devices on a local link without requiring a globally unique prefix
• Site-Local - allows communications within an organization without need for a public prefix
• Loopback - used by a node to send an IPv6 packet to itself
• Unspecified - used by new interfaces until the application or device has obtained the host's source address
6. Understand the risks and develop a security policy
Organizations must make plans to address the impact of IPv6 on network security. For example, tunneling and translation mechanisms that facilitate the routing of traffic between IPv4 and IPv6 hosts can also introduce security risks by carrying IPv6 malware traffic that may evade detection by non-IPv6-aware firewalls. Additionally, the auto-configuration feature of IPv6 can be used to further route malware traffic once inside the network after it has escaped perimeter detection.
On the positive side, support for IPSec is now mandatory in IPv6. Developed by the IETF, IPSec was designed to provide security services such as data confidentiality, integrity and packet origin authentication. IPSec operates at the network layer and when properly configured can be a powerful tool for protecting and authenticating IPv6 traffic. Although support for IPSec is required in IPv6, this by no means implies that security is 'built-in' on day one. IPSec must be properly configured in order to provide the protection it was designed to deliver.
Perschke is co-owner of two IT services firms specializing in web hosting, SaaS (cloud) application development and RDBMS modeling and integration. Susan also has executive responsibility for risk management and network security at her companies' data center. She can be reached at email@example.com.