text:
Royal Realist candidates for student senate office gather in
the college building. They are: John Carlson, Truman Turnquist, Kathy
Wilsey, Marilyn Benson, and Bruce Leafblad.
Athletic Council Plans
Co-Rec for April 19
the CLARION
Volume XXXVI—No. 12
Bethel College and Seminary, St. Paul, Minn. Thursday, March 31, 1960
Fine Arts Emphasis
Begins Tomorrow
Politics on the Campus
Leafblad, Peterson Vie
For Senate President
Friday, April 1, marks the be-ginning
of another of Bethel's spe-cial
emphasis weeks. The activi-ties
of the Fine Arts week will
begin tomorrow night with a con-cert
by Josephone Busalacchi.
Saturday will be the first day
of an exhibition of paintings by
Cameron Booth, professor of paint-ing
at the University of Minnesota.
These paintings will be on display
from April 2 through 18 at the
student center.
Leaving Bodien dormitory at 2
p.m. on Sunday will be a bus tour
of Twin City churches, outstanding
in architectural design. The
churches visited will be Christ Lu-theran,
Prince of Peace Lutheran
Church for the deaf, St. Peter's Lu-theran,
Temple of Aaron, St. Fran-ces
Cabrini, and St. Mary's Greek
Orthodox church.
On Monday, April 3, at 3 p.m.,
by Shirley Stearns
Crash! Hear those cymbals ?
Hear that brilliant tone in the
trumpets, the lilting run of the
clarinets ? These are sounds that
will be heard on Tuesday, April 5
at 8 p.m. in the college chapel.
J. Busalacchi
Sings Friday
Josephine Busalacchi, soprano,
will appear in concert on Friday
evening, April 1. The cultural coun-cil
sponsored concert will begin
at 8 p.m. in the college chapel.
Miss Busalacchi has appeared
with the Minneapolis Symphony
Orchestra, the St. Paul Civic
Opera, and on the Ed Sullivan
television show. She is the winner
of the Metropolitan Regional con-test
and the Chicagoland Music
festival as well as the Milwaukee
Journal contest. Miss Busalacchi
had an extended run in the role
of Anna in the "King and I."
Admission for Friday's concert
will be 50 cents. Tickets may be
obtained from Milton Quiggle,
Shirley Stearns, Ray Duncan or
Kathy Wilsey. No tickets will be
sold at the time of the perform-ance.
Ann Friberg, a junior art major,
will give a demonstration of pot-tery
making in the student center.
On Monday evening at 7 Mr.
Sam Hunter, acting director of the
Minneapolis Institute of Arts, will
speak. Mr. Hunter has lectured
widely on art at museums and pub-lic
galleries around the country.
He was formerly professor of art
history at Barnard College and
the University of California. He
has published twelve books on art,
his most recent publication, Mod-ern
Painting and Sculpture, was is-sued
last fall. He is considered one
of the outstanding American au-thorities
on modern art.
At 8:15 Monday evening there
will be a reception in the student
center in honor of Mr. Hunter and
Mr. Booth.
Tuesday night the Bethel band
will be presenting a concert.
The band concert, with Charles
Tucek, pianist, as featured soloist,
is part of the Fine Arts festival
beginning April 1, sponsored by
the cultural council.
Julius Whitinger directs the 46
piece band each Tuesday night and
Thursday noon as they practice for
this concert. This concert will be
their first formal concert of the
year, although they have been ac-tive
in playing for convocations,
football and basketball games.
This symphonic band concert
covers a cross section of musical
tastes, from the baroque period
to the modern. Beginning with the
overture "Au Pay Lorrain" by G.
Balay, a French bandmaster in the
early twentieth century, the mood
is set with this musical picture of
perfect peace and contentment. As
the second number, the band plays
a rhythmical "Taccota for Band"
by Frank Erickson, who writes in
the modern band idiom.
The brilliant "Three Debonairs"
by Clifford P. Barnes features the
trumpet trio, Morris Anderson,
Charlene Evers, and Janet Drury.
The "Baroque Suite" by G. F.
Handel is a selection of three
pieces from Handel's "Water Mu-sic."
The "I Bouree," "II Air," and
"III Finale" are contrasted dynami-cally
to produce its pleasing effect.
Heading the list of candidates
in tomorrow's student senate elec-tions
are presidential nominees,
Bruce Leafblad and Larry Peter-son.
A junior from Waukegan, Ill.,
Mr. Leafblad serves as vice presi-dent
of the senate. In this position
Freshman week and Prospective
Student days have been his re-sponsibility.
He has been vice
president and treasurer of the re-ligious
council, vice president of
the male chorus, and was presi-dent
of his class as a freshman.
Mr. Peterson, a Minneapolis
sophomore is program chairman
for the freshman-sophomore ban-quet
and business manager of the
college choir.
John Carlson, a sophomore from
Effie, Minn., and Dave Stapp, a
sophomore from South St. Paul,
vie for the vice presidency. Mr.
The above sketch and var-ious
bookish illustrations and
announcements that appear in
this paper are presented as
support for National Library
week, April 3-9. Libraries,
bookstores and campus papers
across the country are par-ticipating
in this annual cam-paign
to prod people to do
things that they will probably
enjoy anyway.
Pictured at the left are some
of the elements involved in fine
arts, which is the area of concen-tration
on campus starting tomor-row
evening with Josephine Busa-lacchi's
Charles Tucek, instructor in phy-sics
and mathematics in the col-lege,
will be featured as the piano
soloist in Grieg's "A Minor Piano
Concerto." A perennial favorite
among concert pianists, this work
by the Norwegian romanticist is
noted for its breathless power and
grandiose style, as well as for its
technical demands on the perfor-mer.
Mr. Tucek studied piano with
Anna Tomlinson Boyd of Illinois
for eight years. He has appeared
in many concerts, featured with
both orchestra and band.
One of the greatest of modern
composers, Bela Bartok, will be
represented on the program by "An
evening in the Village." This con-temporary
composition with con-trasting
moods and rhythm, char-acterized
by an oriental gong, de-picts
life in a typical Hungarian
The band will play several
marches, including the familiar
march from "The Love for Three
Oranges" by the modern composer,
Serge Prokofieff.
"Themes from Caucasian Sket-ches"
by M. Ippolitov-Ivanov fasci-nates
with its lovely exotic tex-ture.
There are many interesting
incidental solos within this color-ful
Carlson is president of his class
and was vice president of his class
as a freshman. Mr. Stapp is the
treasurer of the social council and
has been active in various class
promotions at homecoming.
Marilyn Benson and Louise Hol-den
are the candidates for record-ing
secretary. A sophomore, Miss
Benson is secretary of the Bodien
dormitory council and comes from
Bigelow, Minn. Hailing from Mt.
Pleasant, Iowa, Miss Holden is
treasurer of the Bodien dormitory
council and secretary of the vice
president's standing committee.
Contending for the office of cor-responding
secretary are juniors,
Thelma Fredrickson and Kathy
Wilsey. Miss Fredrickson is a jun-ior
from Seattle, Wash. Serving
as accompanist with the college
choir for three years, Miss Fred-rickson
was the treasurer of her
freshman class. A junior from Eau
Claire, Wis., Miss Wilsey is trea-surer
of her class, a member of
the cultural council, and a coun-sellor
in Bodien residence.
Canadian Leland Eliason is run-ning
against Truman Turnquist
from Grasston, Minn. in the race
for treasurer. Mr. Eliason is sec-retary
of the Edgren dormitory
council and secrotary-treasurer of
the male chorus. Mr. Turnquist is
president of the junior class and
captain of the basketball team.
The athletic council is planning
a co-rec party on Saturday even-ing,
April 9, in the fieldhouse.
The party will begin at 7:30 p.m.
The council is planning to have
informal athletic activities that
will pertain to the interests of each
participant. There will be activi-ties
from checkers to trampoline.
According to Dick Benert, athletic
council chairman, this will be an
enjoyable and worthwhile evening
Voting for
Culminating events of Political
Emphasis week on the Bethel
campus commence tonight as stu-dents
meet in the fieldhouse for
party demonstrations. Each party's
candidates for student senate office
will be introduced and presidential
nominees will each present a state-ment
of their views on campus af-fairs.
Presidential candidates may
be questioned on their opinions
after they have spoken.
Voting will be all day Friday,
April 1, in the student lounge. At
this time, students will make the
official vote on the adoption of
the new school pep song. Election
results will be announced at the
cultural concert on Friday night.
Featured speaker at the convo-cation
tomorrow morning in the
fieldhouse will be Ed Viehman,
former Twin City radio-television
personality and now chairman of
the Minnesota Republican party.
Mr. Viehman's topic will be "Poli-tics:
The Religion of Freedom."
Mr. Viehman once began studies
for the priesthood, served in the
Navy during World War II, was
announcer, master of ceremonies
and executive for WCCO radio and
television, and accepted the full-time
post of state GOP chairman
in January, 1959.
if you enjoy basketball, badminton,
bowling, rook, ping pong or volley-ball.
Mr. Benert suggests that those
attending wear clothing appro-priate
for the planned activities,
such as bermuda shorts, slacks,
and sweatshirts. The council ad-vises
that each one bring his own
towel unless he only plans to play
checkers or rook.
Band Concert Tuesday Night
Features C. Tucek on Piano
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Conrad Woodall
Lois Bradshaw
Dick Kreider
Business Manager:
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Thursday, March 31, 1960
Sparce Officer Timber
Raises Questions
Senate President Tells
of Opportunities
An interesting contrast to this
situation is the election of 1958.
This election involved three parties.
Yes, in 1958 there were 15 willing,
and even eager, candidates.
Why only the handful now ?
Maybe there are not as many
qualified people ? But, certainly
there are more than a handful
possessing a 1.'5 honor point ratio.
There must be another factor.
We will assume that this factor is
lack of interest. Lack of interest
then is the major reason that col-legians
and seminarians with some
A term often used to describe
Bethel is "family." This word car-ries
with it implications of warmth
and closeness, which are not un-desirable
on this campus. And it
is good to be reminded of a cer-tain
oneness of spirit shared here.
But it can be overdone. Constant
reference to the "Bethel family"
wears out the expression and
causes it to lose effectiveness.
And when any word is used to
extremes it can become inaccurate
—especially a word like family
with its sentimental and emotional
overtones. It is healthy to make
such reference when discussing
many common spiritual, cultural,
and economic endeavors and the
But when dynamic qualities on
the campus clash on an administra-tive
issue, an educational policy,
or a disciplinary problem, perhaps
The CLARION co-editors have
come to that time of the year
when they have to choose succes-sors.
One of these positions will
be filled by a member of the staff,
who is already familiar with some
of the technical aspects of the
The other position, which has
become traditionally, though not
necessarily, a job for a male, is
not yet filled. It would be untrue
to say that this statement is en-tirely
without its S.O.S. aspects,
for we are in a difficult position.
We are looking for a person who
is interested in Bethel and has a
few ideas concerning what Bethel
should be. Contrary to popular
opinion (we would hope this was
popular opinion) the job of writ-ing
editorials does not require a
great deal of writing skill.
News and editorial writing
forms are simple. The only other
real requirement, except persever-time,
leadership ability and a 1.5
honor point ratio don't see fit to
run for office.
One point is worthy of note—
interest in something that requires
that the something be interesting!
Is not the Bethel community
democratically balanced ? When
students feel that administrative
action, or for that matter senate
action, has treated them unfairly,
don't they contact their class offi-cers,
council chairmen or senate
cabinet members—or even go to a
senate meeting, and say, "We have
been wronged; it is your duty and
privilege to do something about
it!" ?
Retiring officers and those elect-ed
are going to have to answer
these questions if the student
senators of 1960-61 are to do more
than appear in the yearbook, la-boriously
turn out an event or two
a month, and be happy when elec-tions
relieve them of their heavy
another word could be found.
Otherwise we suggest that all our
problems are solvable if confronted
in supper table fashion.
Such an approach can be unjust
to various elements, if for no other
reason than social pressure. On
occasion disagreement violates the
sanctity of the loving domestic
spirit, and the non-conformist and
his views are judged, not by their
worth, but their presentation in
the loving atmosphere.
Bethel is more than a family,
although we like to think that
certain closeness—even a unique
closeness—exists here. But there
are times when we do well to ap-proach
difficulties with an attitude
other than the supper table con-descendence
— an attitude that
would incorporate, not alienate,
the various elements that combine
to make Bethel.
ance, etc., is an interest in Bethel
and some desire to do something
for Bethel. A student newspaper
can be an important force on cam-pus,
if it is presented by serious
people and is actively read. Active
reading means more than reading;
it includes further discussion of
topics presented and maybe a let-ter
to the editor. Unfortunately,
all of the ideals of the campus
newspaper aren't consistently rea-lized
at Bethel—on both the pro-ducer
and reader level.
In concluding this short discus-sion,
we want to make it known
that we are considering possible
editors and would be only too
happy to have more presented to
us. This is an opportunity for the
writer, the critic, the concerned
campus citizen, and the interested
Interested persons should con-tact
either co-editor or drop a note
in post office box number 350.
Dear Editors:
In reply to a letter in the last
CLARION disparaging Mr. Leaf-blad's
pep song, allow me to point
out that the music and lyrics of
that song, contrary to the un-known
critic's opinion, actually do
fit the critic's description of the
ideal pep song. Yet, though I ob-viously
have a vested interest in
this song, I would not urge its
adoption against a strong major-ity
sentiment opposed to it (which
I do not believe exists). But I do
urge an intelligent appraisal of
it by everyone who will vote on it
in this Friday's referendum.
I would also like to express a
thought concerning another, more
consequential matter. I would like
to see, along with the current, and
entirely proper, criticism of the sen-ate
by everyone from you, the Edi-tors
down the the humblest muck-racker
on campus, a criticism by
these same people of the present
functional purposes of the senate.
Is our senate to continue in its
present paradoxical capacity of
both staging and criticizing cam-pus
activities ? This practice has
proved to be somewhat embarrass-ing,
not to say impossible. Could
not the senate be allowed to con-centrate
on its primary supervis-ory
and representative functions
without serving as the student
body's entertainment committee ?
It is largely these humdrum
tasks which prevent the senate
from entering more effectively
by Paul Evan
II Timothy 2:15. "Study to show
thyself approved unto God, a work-man
that needeth not to be asham-ed
rightly dividing the word of
One of the high points in my
life has been serving as president
of the senate. Along with the ted-ious
hours of work have been many
opportunities to gain valuable ex-perience.
I have been glad that the
lessons I have learned have not
been confined to politics or admin-istration.
One of my most challenging ex-periences
was explaining our
school's religious beliefs to repre-sentatives
from five prominent
into such areas as educational, ath-letic,
financial policy, etc., areas
of considerably more ultimate im-portance
to the school.
This is, of course, an oversimpli-fication
of the problem. It is not
even an original presentation of it.
It would be original, however, if a
good share of our "apathetic" stu-dent
body would feel the burden
of this problem and make it a
focal point of its active critical
Dick Benert
The college choir will begin its
spring tour on April 8. The itin-erary
for the choir is as follows:
April 8, Fergus Falls, Minn.; April
9, Thief River Falls; April 10,
Roseau, Minn., Selkirk and Winni-peg,
Man.; April 11, Kenora, Ont.;
April 12, Cook, Minn.; April 13,
Duluth, Minn.; April 14, Iron
Mountain, Mich.; April 16, Mani-stee,
Mich.; April 17, Ludington,
Rockford and Grand Rapids, Mich.;
Twin City colleges and a well-known
radio announcer. It would
have been difficult enough to an-swer
questions concerning my own
religious convictions let alone try-ing
to take into consideration the
many views of students, profes-sors,
and administrators.
Because of this unforgettable
experience one thought has re-mained
with me. An indication of
it is in found in II Timothy 2:15.
We need to be ready to explain
what we believe at any time, and
it is not enough to say we do not
do such-and-such simply because
it is against our religion. This is
the lazy man's way out. As we
mature as Christians it is our
duty to think through and formu-late
our beliefs.
As students of Bethel, we should
recognize the distinct advantage
we have over students of secular
institutions. First, we have the ad-vantage
of having instructors
whose main objective is to develop
Christian scholarship. Second, we
have many opportunities for ex-pressing
our opinions and formu-lating
our ideas.
Third, we have had in the past
and present many inspiring ex-amples
of well balanced, dedicated,
and successful Christian lives. All
this is offered over and above
our academic endeavors. In light
of these facts we can truly thank
God for a school like Bethel; but
even more than this, we can praise
Him because He has given us the
faculty of reason which enables us
to use the tools found in His crea-tion
to formulate our beliefs.
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Eugene Johnson, associate pro-fessor
of art, is opening an exhi-bition
of paintings this evening at
the Rainbow Cafe in Minneapolis.
His oil paintings will be exhibited
through April 29.
Mr. Johnson has been working
on about half of the 25 paintings
exhibited for the past four or five
months. Almost half of the paint-ings
are abstractions.
Born in San Jose, Calif., Mr.
Johnson studied at the University
of Southern California, the Univer-sity
of Minnesota, the University
of Iowa, Coronado school of art,
and Pratt Graphic arts center. He
also spent a sabbatical year in
Mexico where he studied indepen-dently.
His exhibition at the Rainbow
Cafe is sponsored by Minnesota
Artists' association.
April 18, Joliet, Ill.; April 19,
Galesburg, Ill.; April 20, Daven-port,
Copies of the complete itiner-ary,
showing times and addresses,
may be obtained by putting a note
in Box 175 by Monday, April 4,
indicating the number of copies
wanted. According to Larry Peter-son,
choir business manager, these
are available to any student or
faculty member.
We suggested in the last issue
of the CLARION that we had
little idea of the whereabouts of
potential student government lead-ers.
An "independent" party and
senate nominators spent a few
frantic hours proving that finding
such people was indeed a task. Is our senate not interesting? Is
Last week many unsuspecting it not a dynamic voice ? Is it not a
Bethelians were seen in yearbooks courageous body of student repre-and
the Royal Roster and were sentatives with significant con-confronted,
almost in a man-on- victions, which are evident in pro-the-
street fashion, with the possi- gramming and in dealings with the
bility of running for office, which powers that are ?
would at least provide some com-petition
for the powerful Royal
Realist party, which has won nine
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The Royal Realists state in their
platform that they would like to
see a greater emphasis placed on
student tradition at Bethel. Since
tradition appears to be scant, there
is an opportunity for the students
attending now to have a part in
starting something of value.
RR proposes the following as
ideas having merit for student
consideration and for senate dis-cussion
in the coming year:
(1) Pep song: RR promotes
adoption of the proposed pep song
at the polls this Friday.
(2) An Alma Mater: RR pro-motes
the adoption of an Alma
Mater to be decided upon by the
student body. At the moment RR
knows of at least two suitable
arrangements written by members
of the faculty.
(3) Senate-sponsored coffee par-ties:
RR suggests that some all-school
events could be sponsored
by the senate. RR suggests that
one of these be a coffee party and
concurrent discussion of matters
of interest and of import to the
student. Senate leaders would head
small discussion groups at these
meetings. This would also promote
closer communication between stu-dents
and the senate.
(4) "Bethel Man" concept: In
the eyes of the student, what
should a Bethel graduate be ? What
characteristics should he have that
are unique ? What should he have
been exposed to ? RR would pro-mote
discussions on this topic with
the ideas of coming to possible
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RR Places Emphasis Wanted: Council Cha
On Student Tradition
(5) RR favors the idea that
smaller student organizations be
given financial aid by the senate
for specific programs and events
of all-school interest.
(6) Leadership retreats: RR fa-vors
a pre-school leadership re-treat
each fall for two or three
days, with coming problems being
discussed at greater length. Con-clusions
would be based on wider
discussions. New ideas could be
given greater thought.
(7) Seminar series: Have a fac-ulty
member or someone not on
the faculty conduct a short series
of lecture-discussions in the area
of his expertisse.
(8) Seminary-college separation:
RR favors re-evaluation of the
problems and benefits of separat-ing
the student governments of
the college and the seminary. RR
favors separation of the student
governments and hopes that the
seminary will continue to promote
1. Publicity: RR favors greater
use of student talent in publicity
at Bethel, for news releases to
papers, radio, and T.V., e.g. in
athletic and music departments.
2. T.C. C. S.G. C.: RR feels that
Bethel in this Twin City college
organization can now show its
leadership and favors this action.
3. Dining Hall: RR, in light of
student criticism, favors the con-tinuation
of the present food com-mittee
and encourages a survey
to find the trends of opinion and
the volume of such opinion.
4. "A. E. S."; In light of the
present questionable action on the
part of the A.E.S. constitution, RR
favors looking into the matter to
discover the source of misunder-standing
and mismanagement.
5. Calendar policy: RR favors
better scheduling, more effective
integration and coordination of
council programs and other major
campus events (Founders week,
etc.) in order to present a more
full and balanced overall program.
A few weeks following tomor-row's
election the combined pre-sent
senate and the newly elected
cabinet members will nominate and
vote on the four new council
The council chairmen become
voting members of the senate and
will be able to vote at the com-bined
meeting at the end of May.
They will be able to select their
council members and begin to plan
activities for next year.
The senate is interested to know
which students would like to be
Tomorrow, April 1, Bethel's de-bate
team will participate in the
Upper Midwest Tyro Debate Tour-nament
on Hamline campus. They
will be debating rounds from 11
a.m. to 7:15 p.m.
Rich Sorvig and Wally Burke,
and Terry Benz and John Marrs
comprise the two Bethel teams go-ing
to the tournament. Each team
will debate four rounds, two af-firmative
and two negative.
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Darrel Van Orsdel, freshman
from Little Falls, was elected
president of the Young Republican
club at a recent meeting.
Other officers are David Wink-ler,
vice president; Charlotte
Cleveland, secretary; Connie Ald-rich,
treasurer. Gary Scull, Ver-dean
Olson, Gordon Houk, and
Alan Jordan are members of the
executive committee.
nominated as council chairmen.
Council chairmen must have a 1.0
grade point average. Interested
and qualified students should in-form
their senators of their desire
to serve in this capacity.
The jobs of the four council
chairmen are more or less detailed
in the by-laws of the constitution
of the Bethel Student association.
The functions of the religious
council shall be to guide the re-ligious
activities of the campus and
formulate a well-rounded religious
program; to help and encourage
Both teams have a record of
10-4. According to Q. T. Smith,
debate coach, this is an extremely
good record, especially since none
of the participants had ever been
active debators previously.
The debate question for this year
is, "Resolved: That congress should
be given the authority to reverse
decisions of the supreme court."
According to Mr. Smith, the crux
of this problem lies in legislation
on integration and communism.
Participating in the debate at
Hamline will be schools from
Minn., Wisc., Iowa, North Dakota,
and South Dakota.
Bethel now offers one credit per
semester to debators. Mr. Smith
stresses that no requirements are
need for the course.
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the spiritual life of each student;
to advance the cause of Christ in
the world; to work together with
the appropriate faculty committee
to plan special emphasis weeks,
and to promote a yearly steward-ship
plan. The chairman of this
council shall perform all the dut-ies
pertaining to the office of pres-ident
and serve as a student sen-ate
Function of the social council
shall include having the responsi-bility
and supervision of a well
balanced social program for the
entire school; and Sno-Daze acti-vities.
There are no definite functions
defined for the cultural council
and its chairman, except that this
council shall exist and its chair-man
shall be a voting senator.
Promoting student participation
in intramurals as a committee un-der
the physical education depart-ment
is one of three functions of
the athletic council. The others are
the promoting of inter-scholastic
athletics events by the use of half
time entertainment, pep fests and
providing transportation to away
games; and the selection of cheer-leaders.
Students interested in being
members of the councils next year
should submit their names to the
present council chairmen that they
might be passed along to the new
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A 12 week series called
"Efficient Reading," began on
Tuesday, March 22, on Channel 2,
will help the viewing audience in-crease
both speed and comprehen-sion
of reading. The program can
be viewed at 4:30 p.m.
James I. Brown, professor of
rhetoric at the University of Min-nesota,
will be the instructor. He
will adapt for television his class-room
course given to thousands of
students and adults in industry in
this region. A device called a
tachistoscope, formerly used to
train men in aircraft recognition,
will flash words on your television
screen instead of airplane pictures.
The series is prdouced with the
cooperation of the Minnesota Min-ing
and Manufacturing company as
part of the company's continuing
program to encourage educational
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Thursday, March 31, 1960
Outstanding Baseball
Season Predicted
Barons Are
BB Champs,
In First Place
Barons 0
Peasants 6 1
Dukes 4 3
Squires 3 4
Jesters 3 4
Knights 3 4
Counts 2 5
Pages 1 6
The final basketball games have
been completed in the men's in-tramural
program with the Barons
obtaining a 7-0 record and captur-ing
first place. The Barons played
consistently good basketball
throughout the season as they
scored 516 points to their oppon-ents
374. They also set a record
by scoring most points for a sin-gle
game. On February 29 they
defeated the Pages by an aston-ishing
127 to 62 score.
Second place went to the Pea-sants
as they compiled a 6-1 re-cord.
There only defeat came at
the hands of the stronger Baron
team in an early season game.
This entire portion of the in-tramural
program received strong
support by the students and was
very successful in offering a good
competitive spirit.
In the singles ping-pong tourna-ment
Don Mattson downed John
Holmberg in the finals to capture
the ping-pong championship.
*Unofficial, but pretty accurate
by Larry Bradshaw
Coach Thompson got his first
look at the Royal cindermen Fri-day,
March 25, in a practice meet
against Macalester held in the
Macalester fieldhouse. The Royals
couldn't compare with the better
conditioned and experienced 'Mac'
team, however additional meets be-fore
Easter vacation will help over-come
two big problems—lack of
experience and condition. A third
problem will remain throughout
the season, though, this being the
lack of depth in some events.
Friday's meet didn't have the
pole vault, high jump, or broad
by Harry Cohen
"Well, Mr. Just," said I, "do you
imagine that you could comment
on the overall at-a-glance athletic
situation, locally, nationally and
internationally, in light of con-temporary
trends in physical cul-ture
and recreation both here and
on the continent (i.e. Europe) ; of
course not forgetting the Austral-ians
or the Russians (oh, those
winter Olympics), and keeping in
mind some of your own experien-ces
in health and physical educa-tion."
"Yes, I imagine I could," said
the venerable Plain, a renowned
jump because of unprepared facili-ties.
At present the team is ap-portioned
in this manner:
Shot put; Evan—Luckman—Hag-feldt
50 yd. dash; Evan—Olson—Purcell
440 yd. dash; Hagfeldt—Aspling-
880 run; Colon—Kusant—Anderson
Mile; Bradshaw—Cedarlund
2 mile; Kuhlman
Mile Relay; Olson—Bradshaw-
High hurdles; Purcell—Swanson
Low hurdles; Purcell—Swanson-
backer and participant in nearly
all areas of athletics, "as you
know, I am something of a re-nowned
backer and participant in
nearly all areas of athletics."
"We, although Americans, must
remember that we are human!"
Mr. Just restated his memorable
doctrine, which he had first writ-ten
for a quarterly journal of ath-letics
bringing forth ringing let-ters
to the editor bemoaning the
fact that this might be the posi-tion
of American athletes. One let-ter
directed readers to a book
published by the D.A.R. and others
raised such a fuss that Just was
called before a house un-American
activities committee as well as the
Atomic Energy Commission of
Greater St. Louis Park.
"The Russians have realized
that men are human and have com-pensated
by making machines of
themselves (the dirty communists).
Americans haven't realized this.
We think we are machines, when
we are mere flesh and bones, with
the few notable exceptions, of
course of Roy Reagles, Shoeless
Joe Jackson, Ray Felix, Murray
Warmath and Bobby Cox."
"Do you think the - - -"
"No, I don't think the situation
is terribly dangerous. I think that
America is just suffering from a
lapse of inactivity sponsored by
the so-called minds of our day. In
by Dan Anderson
Coach Lynn Lundin and Captain
Al Penner both agree that this
year Bethel can look forward to an
exciting, top-notch baseball sea-son.
One reason for this pleasant pre-diction
is that pitching has always
been the key factor in the Bethel
baseball situation, and this year,
for the first time in Bethel's his-tory,
it looks like Coach Lundin
will be able to work with a regular
pitching staff. Also in this cate-gory
of firsts is the encouraging
fact that this year's freshman
members of the team have come
with more playing experience un-der
their belts than any similar
group has before. This year's
group is experiencing stiff compe-tition
from the outset as almost
every position has two or three
hopefuls fighting for a starting
physical culture and health educa-tion
we will find well-rounded
healthy lives. And we don't need
Norman Vincent Peale."
I applauded; I couldn't help my-self.
Remembering one of the burn-ing
issues on the local level I took
a deep breath, and plunged in, "Mr.
Just, what do you think of mas-cots
and pep songs or rousers for
organized athletic teams."
"At this point I feel that I have
to be cautious, for I can tell that
you want an opinion on the re-cently
proposed pep song and the
ever-recurring idea of a new mas-cot.
There is an inherent good in
high spirits and good morale in
competitive-type competition. But
really, a Royal! What is a Royal,
anyway ? What if every school
used teacher's first names for mas-cots
? Why, our country would be
flooded with Alberts, Walters,
Clarences, and Harolds."
"And what's wrong with Har-olds,
I said vehemently. Just just
smiled and told me there was no
offense meant, and suggested I
just call his Plain-just Plain. Great
man—that Just.
Just commented on rousers. "Pep
songs are fine, but occasionally we
have to re-evaluate and maybe re-organize
our concepts of spirit and
just what goes in an athletic en-berth.
The group has very high
morale and Captain Al Penner be-lieves
that a big factor in the
team's moral is this tight compe-tition.
Since pitching plays such an im-portant
role in Bethel's baseball
outlook, it might be interesting to
take a closer look at one of our
most promising young pitching
prospects—and such a one is lanky
John Holmberg.
Coach Lundin hopes for a lot of
help from "Long" John Holmberg's
whipping fast ball this spring, and
he has some statistics to build his
hopes on. Here are a few of them.
In John's senior year in high
school, his fast ball, coupled with
good control and some junk pitches,
carried him through the entire
season unbeaten. In two of these
games, he hurled a no and a one
hitter, respectively.
But pitching isn't "Long" John's
only attribute. On the days he
didn't pitch for his high school
team, he played center field and
over the entire season, hit at a
blazing .495 clip. After high school
he played more ball—this time it
was Marine ball during his stint
with Uncle Sam.
Things look promising for this
year's baseball team and the season
should prove quite interesting.
vironment. Pep ? Fine, great, but
when it gets to sounding like the
Buffalo Bills sing Ivy League
Songs in three-four time, the spirit
is gone."
"Thank you very much, Mr.
"Your welcome," he said as he
reved his trembling Lark conver-tible,
pulled down his goggles,
midst the scent of his manly St.
John's Bay Rum after-shave lotion,
"and remember, No beatnik ever
turned out for tennis."
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In every newsletter you will find an actual overview of standards relating to explosion safety.
In this issue the 31G/206/NP and the future IEC 60079-39 will be discussed.
31G/206/NP (NP = New Proposal)
Future IEC 60079-39 TS Ed. 1.0: Explosive atmospheres – Part 39: Intrinsically safe systems with electronically controlled spark duration limitation.
Short name: "Power-i"
Scope of this standard:
The application of the "Power-i" concept provides a significant increase of the available effective power taking into consideration the principles of type of protection Intrinsic safety. The constructional requirements of intrinsically safe equipment and systems are specified by the standards IEC 60079-11 and -25 which however, do not cover intrinsically safe systems with electronically controlled spark duration limitation. This type of dynamically acting intrinsically safe systems is called "Power-i" and enables, compared to previous intrinsically safe solutions, a considerable increase of the effective power.
"Power-i" is a technology where the entire system, consisting of source, cable and field device(s), shall be included in the safety-related consideration. An evaluation on the basis of currently applicable standards is either not possible or only to a limited extent.
The intrinsically safe maximum values permitted for a "Power-i" system can be far above the currently applicable standard values of IEC 60079-11 or -25.
The "Power-i" concept is intended for "ib" and "ic" levels of protection and may, after stabilization of this technology, represent a possible future extension of IEC 60079-11.
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Target date of this IS/TS is 09-2013
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The weather is finally starting the cheer up here in England; its nicely warm and bright, is it nearly spring?!
I finally did the exercise DVD I bought in January (ahem) and I nearly died after the warm up and first work out. I didn't even attempt the boxercise section or the stretches because I felt like I had climbed a mountain. And I probably burned what – a quarter of a Reeces Peanut Butter Cup? I will never look at Chocolate in the same way again.
Having said that I started the day with a McDonalds Breakfast and a 3 pack of Reeces, so I obviously haven't accepted the food in/fat out equation yet. But hey, I'm only 3 days into New Year (Chinese, that is!).
I bought this Pop Beauty Palette on sale for £10 – it includes 8 bronzed/peach shades:
I really love the colours; they can be used on cheek, eyes and for contouring, but I noticed some bizarre black damp looking stains on the compact.
I have not idea what it is but I don't like – I am going to return it methinks but I do love the colours; they are very summery and wearable, and there is a soft fragrance.
Its my first POP item; I've seen the products strewn across counters in TopShop and skipped it since it is hardly cheap, but I will definately keep my eye open now for other cute products they have.
I also got another beauty tool from Ebay – Shu Uemura Eyelash Applicator;
I am completely rubbish with applying lashes. I cannot get it to stick, and if the glue gets to close it irritates my eyes like crazy. So hopefully this tool will help.
I paid £20 for it with shipping, I think it is listed as $55 on the US Shu Website.
Here are the instructions;
This should be a good alternative to my thick fingers and long nails! I find it hard to apply lashes with my tweezers as the are short and thicker than this applicator, so it should be ideal for application…I shall update shortly!
I managed to collect my Paul & Joe, TWO DAYS LATE. Yes it had been sat in a random Post Office. I had called earlier and said they didn't have it, but when I popped in, the *did* have it. Like magic.
So on my lap here it is:
I couldn't open it without powder getting everywhere (because it had been knocked about a bit I reckon) hence no piccie whilst I was in the car and now my camera needs charging..yes, disorganised, I know.
Ain't it cute?! Its such a perfect collection, perfect product and perfect packaging – totally difficult to get for most of us mere mortals, but never mind.
What else? The sun is shining and I feel like a cranky old vampire. Its time to get some Vitamin D.
P.S. Does anyone know a good hairdresser?…..
I kid, I kid.


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Growth necessitates investment and expansion Electromach premises
It has only been three years since Electromach moved to the new premises on the Jan Tinbergenstraat 193 in Hengelo. In these three years the company has been developing outstandingly, so further expansion is necessary.
Due to a strong growth in the sales of our CUBEx Exd solutions, a third CNC machine was brought into use in November 2011. In September this year the fourth CNC machine was added and in March next year the fifth CNC machine will follow. This month the machine park will also expand with the arrival of a laser machine.
Besides the growth in the CUBEx Exd solutions, the sales of containers solutions and HVAC solutions is also considerable. Therefore further expansion of the Electromach premises is necessary. Last October the warehouse was expanded with a new 900m² floor en in February 2013 they will start with the expansion of the workshop (2350m²) and the new offices (200m²).


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BBC News
- Lee Pomeroy death: Attack on train 'lasted 25 seconds'
- Prince William: 'I'd support my child if they were gay'
- How Moors murderer Brady had access to vulnerable teens in jail
- Rosie Johnson: Search for missing 22-year-old on Isle of Wight
- Coventry man jailed for 18 years over gun 'messing' death
- Boris Johnson and Jeremy Hunt divided over Brexit plans
- UK population grows to reach 66.4m
- Apprenticeships pledge 'will be missed'
- Abingdon woman died from 'rat bite fever'
- Riyad Mahrez and wife ordered to pay former nanny
- Pink Liverpool gig surprise baby 'gets party started'
- Cleared Ice Cream Wars accused Thomas 'TC' Campbell dies
- In pictures: Glastonbury 2019 - before the music starts
- Flat-pack home? Ikea moves in on UK housing
- Liberal Democrat leadership: Contenders make pitches
- Mum goes to prom in memory of daughter's 'last wish'
- Birmingham Rep photos shine spotlight on backstage world
- Clive Hally: 'Paedophile' art teacher hiding in plain view
- When poverty means living without soap
- Fifa Women's World Cup: Five ways women's football beats men's
- Why is Scotland setting up a Citizens' Assembly?
- Brexit: John McDonnell warns Labour must shift policy
- William: 'I'd support my child if they were gay'
- Jeremy Hunt: 'I am trustworthy'
- The Brighton tailor whose identity became his business
- Boris Johnson: 'I make models of buses'
- Catching pickpockets on the Tube
- 'Lottery scam' solicitor Hugh Lansdell is struck off
- Former Lib Dem leader Tavish Scott to quit Holyrood
- Ian Paisley holiday 'funded by Maldives government minister'
- Brynteg Comprehensive art teacher 'abused teen pupils'
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- An overview of our conference planning, review, and approval processes;
- Agency-sponsored conferences in excess of $500,000;
- Agency-sponsored conferences in excess of $100,000; and
- Non-agency sponsored conference in excess of $100,000.
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Bird Enthusiasts will love Lake Nakuru and Lake Bogoria, pink rimmed with thousands of flamingoes and discover the contrasting scenery, wildlife environments and culture of the Masai Mara Community. Africa is truly the cradle of mankind.
Day 1:Lake Nakuru
Depart Nairobi in the morning and drive Lake Nakuru lodge/Camp, a place where you are more than a guest arriving in time for lunch.This is the beginning of an exhilarate adventure that will have your capturing moments like pictures in your mind'after lunch relax and prepare for an afternoon game watching at the Nakuru National Reserve.Nakuru Park has the ultimate African birding and wildlife adventure.Bird enthusiasts will love Lake Nakuru circled around a soda lake'pink-rimmed with thousands of flamingoes and where there is a healthy population of rare white and black rhinos' lion' leopard' vast herds of buffaloes and giraffe its only the elephant that you will miss in this park. Dinner and Overnight.
Day 2:Lake Bogoria
Early breakfast and drive to the lake Bogoria for a whole day. It is approximately 2 hours drive 87 kms from Nakuru westwards through a number of agricultural settlements. Lake Bogoria is described as the jewel of Rift valley;Geysers and hot springs are major attractions which are at the central basin of the lake. It has a temperature of close to boiling point. Visits to the boiling springs give visitors a marvel and may get an opportunity to boil eggs. Return to Lake Bogoria resort in time for lunch and early afternoon depart back to Lodge IN Nakuru for Dinner and Overnight.
Day 3:Nakuru Masai Mara
Wake up for an early game watching at the Nakuru park or nature walk'return to the lodge for breakfast and Check out and depart depart to Masai Mara at 0900hr hours.Discover the contrasting scenery' wildlife environments and culture of the Masai community. Masai Mara is one of the most famous wildlife regions in the world.Arrive mara at lodge/Camp for lunch. Enjoy an early evening game viewing. Dinner and overnight at Mara Sopa Lodge.
Day 4:Masai Mara
Full day game viewing in the park in diverse environments giving you a fantastic opportunity to see an incredible range of Mammals' birds and reptiles. And you will get an insight into the Masai way of life with a visit to an authentic Masai village.Dinner and overnight in your Lodge/camp
Day 5:Nairobi
Breakfast slowly check out and depart back to Nairobi arriving in the evening Africa is truly the cradle of life
Using Sopa Lodges...
Price For each of 2 persons sharing USD
Price For each of 4 persons sharing USD
Price For each of 6 persons sharing USD
For April-June and November-Dec Kindly enquire
Daily departures,minimum in 2 persons.
Transportation in tourist minibuses with HF Radio communication and pop-up roof for easy viewing and photographing. Full board accommodation on safari based on twin sharing, Drinking mineral water,All park entrance fees, services of English speaking skilled and experienced driver/guide, extensive game drives in the national parks ,Air Rescue Service fee,Free airport transfers in Nairobi.
Nairobi overnight, Alcoholic drinks, beverages, Airport departure Tax, tips, visas, laundry,Personal Toiletries, international flights, personal & baggage insurance. optional activities or items of personal nature.


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This morning Google anounced that they just bought Motorola Mobility for $12.5 billion. With all the latest Mobile patents war between Apple, Microsoft and Google, they were obviously chasing the strong portfolio of more than 17000 patents.
Microsoft was interested in acquiring Motorola's patent portfolio that would have allowed it to torpedo Android even further. The possibility of that deal brought Google to the negotiation table, resulting in the blockbuster sale. OM Malik on GigaOM
Pissed that they lost the last fight over Nortels patents, Google had to do something. They were probably looking to secure their Android platform from rival, which means more control over the open platform (dont be fool). They will be able to deploy Android update much faster or at least to put pressure on these OEMs (HTC, Samsung) not fast enough. They can defend Android much better with that acquisition, as MG Siegler on Techcrunch wrote:
What happens when the iPhone 5 launches and everyone wants it? That includes many people currently using Android phones. After a few months of this, Google grows frustrated that none of their OEMs can release a device that matches the build-quality that Apple puts out there. But wait, they now have their own company they can at the very least use to apply to pressure the other OEMs to force them to do better work!
More on this news over RWW and TechCrunch


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Digital storytelling is a creative process in which a traditional story (or assignment) is combined with personal digital technology such as a computer, video camera and sound recorder. Students thoroughly enjoy the opportunity to creatively tell their stories with technology. Educators in this workshop will learn the importance of story planning and use a variety of free websites where students can create and share their tales. Bring your story ideas and have some fun!
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§ 404.384. Reductions, suspensions, and nonpayments of special age 72 payments.
(a) General. Special age 72 payments may not be paid for any month you receive public assistance payments. The payment may be reduced if you or your spouse are eligible for a government pension. In some instances, the special payment may not be paid while you are outside the United States. The rules on when special payments may be suspended, reduced, or not paid are provided in paragraphs (b) through (e) of this section.
(b) Suspension of special age 72 payments when you receive certain assistance payments. You cannot receive the special payment if supplemental security income or aid to families with dependent children (AFDC) payments are payable to you, or if your needs are considered in setting the amounts of these assistance payments made to someone else. However, if these assistance payments are stopped, you may receive the special payment beginning with the last month for which the assistance payments were paid.
(c) Reduction of special age 72 payments when you or your spouse are eligible for a government pension. Special payments are reduced for any regular government pension (or lump-sum payment given instead of a pension) that you or your spouse are eligible for at retirement. A government pension is any annuity, pension, or retirement pay from the Federal Government, a State government or political subdivision, or any organization wholly owned by the Federal or State government. Also included as a government pension is any social security benefit. The term government pension does not include workmen's compensation payments or Veterans Administration payments for a service-connected disability or death.
(d) Amount of reduction because of a government pension. If you are eligible for a government pension, the amount of the pension will be subtracted from your special age 72 payment. If your spouse is eligible for a government pension but is not entitled to the special payment, your special payment is reduced (after any reduction due to your own government pension) by the difference between the pension amount and the full special payment amount. If both you and your spouse are entitled to the special payment, each spouse's payment is first reduced by the amount of his or her own government pension (if any). Then, the wife's special payment is reduced by the amount that the husband's government pension exceeds the full special payment. The husband's special payment is also reduced by the amount that the wife's government pension exceeds the full special payment.
(e) Nonpayment of special age 72 payments when you are not residing in the United States. No special payment is due you for any month you are not a resident of one of the 50 States, the District of Columbia, or the Northern Mariana Islands. Also, payment to you may not be permitted under the rules in § 404.463 if you are an alien living outside the United States.
[44 FR 34481, June 15, 1979, as amended at 49 FR 24116, June 12, 1984]


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About a month ago, the Can A Sista Roc the Mic concert was held here in DC. Female artists: poets, rappers, singers, instrumentalist, everyone from all over came to represent, putting female artists on the map. This festival gave a place to women artists to show us what they're made of without competing with male artists for respect or recognition.
Of course my girl Green Tea had to put it down... and I did her makeup!
Not the best shot, but you get a sense of what was going on.
I was pleased when she requested me again for her live recording at the Artmosphere Cafe in Mt. Rainier, MD.
She added some new stuff to her lineup! In a packed house, she put it down the way she normally does, with good vibes and music for the soul! Good times and good fun!
Okay, I have to shout out most of my Pitt crew(Hail University of Pittsburgh!) that are still on the east coast. Tayo, our soon to be consulting dermatologist (okay, when we make our skincare and makeup line, you all will buy right?), Jess MPJ- Public health admin, Dale- all the way from NY for Green Tea, Mous- physical therapist and jet setter (she has to be on her third passport), Green Tea- social work is in her blood, but music is her soul, Mr. Poteat- graphic designer and entrepreneur extraordinaire, Me- Yummy411, Al- Dapperdon215- scientist, Ij- our lawyer, but her love is with the kids teaching.. and lastly our money guy, Jeen! Thanks for a great time guys =))))


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Passengers disembarking AirTran Flight 725 in Milwaukee this week got a bit of a jolt when a catering truck slammed into the side of the plane. The truck driver's explanation for his monumental fuckup was pretty classic: A loose beverage container made him do it.
He said that the can got stuck under the brake pedal, and that's why he was unable to stop before crashing into the Boeing 717-200, which had just arrived from Atlanta.
He could be telling the truth. He could also be full of shit. Either way, any guesses on how long it'll take for catering truck drivers at airports everywhere to become subject to some new federal regulation prohibiting food and drink in the cab?
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Making a Secure Transition to IPv6
Moving your network from IPv4 to IPv6 can be risky if you don't close security holes
In February 2011, the last blocks of IPv4 Internet addresses were allocated, highlighting the need for organizations everywhere to plan their transition to IPv6, the next generation Internet protocol. Because the move to IPv6 is happening gradually, applications will support both Internet protocols for some time—and so must your network. During the transition from IPv4 to IPv6 your network could become vulnerable to new security risks, so it's critical that you phase in the new protocol as securely as possible.
Because the two Internet protocols are not interchangeable, your small business network will have to run both of them simultaneously until IPv4 is fully phased out. The two protocols can share the same physical network, meaning you don't need to run new cables or separate wireless access points to support IPv4 and IPv6, but the two types of traffic will be kept separate on your network. And though some of the devices on your network will run only IPv4 traffic, newer devices will run IPv4 and IPv6, acting as a bridge as you transition your network to the new protocol. And this dual environment is where security complications can arise, both with new IPv6 devices and the technologies used to allow IPv4 and IPv6 to coexist.
Because every device that connects to your network or the Internet will eventually have to support IPv6, you need to make sure they're protected by your network security measures. You should apply preventative measures to all of your routers, switches, PCs and laptops, printers, smartphones, tablets, and surveillance cameras as you transition to IPv6. Note that many of these devices can be upgraded from IPv4 to IPv6 through a firmware (or software) upgrade or a new Ethernet card. Some devices, though, will need to be replaced with newer equipment that natively supports IPv6 and are backwards compatible with IPv4.
All eyes on IPv6
Currently, most of the organizations that have upgraded to IPv6 are very large enterprises, such as telecom providers and branches of the U.S. government that were mandated to be IPv6-compliant by this time. With so few active users, especially compared to the millions of companies running IPv4 applications, hackers and other attackers couldn't profit by exploiting any vulnerabilities in IPv6 networks and applications. However, this will change as more network devices with native IPv6 functionality are released and more organizations upgrade their networks and applications.
Security experts believe that cyber criminals will soon focus more of their malicious attention on IPv6, creating new tools to attack undiscovered vulnerabilities in IPv6 products. The best way to protect your small business network is by methodically checking any new device for IPv6 capabilities. You want to make sure that IPv6 hasn't been turned on automatically before you've configured your entire network to securely handle IPv6 traffic.
In addition, you need to make sure that the devices running in your dual environment have identical security settings. All of the security settings you configured for your IPv4 equipment should be replicated on your new IPv6 devices, including any traffic blocks or filters. Make sure, too, that the IPv6 network has antivirus, antimalware, firewalls, and intrusion prevention applications in place. For instance, your firewall should be configured to filter IPv6 traffic as well as IPv4 traffic.
Some of your older devices might not be able to process IPv6 traffic and will simply pass the traffic through your network without checking it for attacks. Because there's no reason for IPv6 traffic to be on your IPv4-only network, you should set up a filter on these devices that stops IPv6 traffic from entering your IPv4 network. Keep in mind, though, that one way to transition from IPv4 to IPv6 is by allowing IPv4 traffic to carry IPv6 data packets within it. If you choose this method, called tunneling, you'll have to use more sophisticated security measures to protect against hidden attacks on your dual environment.
Securing new technologies
New IPv6 devices aren't the only possible security risks related to the new protocol. The techniques and technologies used to transition from IPv4 to IPv6 may also create vulnerabilities in your network. There are two ways to make the two incompatible protocols coexist in a dual environment on your network: tunneling and dual stack.
Tunneling allows IPv6 data packets to be encapsulated within IPv4 data packets. IPv6 traffic being carried into your network in IPv4 packets through IPv4-enabled firewalls can pose a security risk if that IPv6 traffic includes an attack. To protect your network from attacks that come in via tunneling, you should consider a firewall or a router with a built-in intrusion prevention system (IPS), such as the Cisco 500 Series Secure Routers, that does packet inspection, which reveals the type of traffic traveling through the tunnels.
A dual stack environment is the easiest way for a small company to support both protocols. Network devices, such as managed switches, run both an IPv4 stack and an IPv6 stack at the same time, which allows the devices to communicate with either protocol. The important thing to remember with this transition technology is that the access control lists (ACLs) that you set up for your IPv4 devices are not automatically transferred to your new IPv6 devices. Because IPv6 supports automated neighbor discovery and address creation, new devices can automatically generate both local and global IPv6 addresses without any user interaction, allowing them to be more easily exploited You'll need to set up ACLs for IPv6 to control the traffic that flows in and out of your network. This will prevent an attacker from gaining access to IP addresses on your network and using them to access your company's resources on your network.
Making a secure transition to IPv6 isn't all that different from securing other new technologies on your network. You make sure your existing defenses protect the new equipment, you configure the equipment to adhere to your network security policies, and you keep a vigilant eye on the traffic that flows into your network. Also, it's important to check every device on your network for different security settings and to discover all the possible entry points for IPv6 traffic, especially on new devices.
Unlike other upgrades you may make to your network, phasing in IPv6 isn't optional. Eventually, IPv4 will fade from use and all traffic traversing the Internet will be IPv6—so you need to support it. Luckily, the switch to IPv6 is a good thing for small businesses. IPv6 is designed to improve application performance on the Internet as well as to provide room for millions of new IP addresses—enough so that every device, from desktops and smartphones to alarm systems, has a unique address on the Internet. The new protocol provides better security and faster performance over virtual private networks (VPNs). And Mobile IPv6 provides better support for new mobile technologies and applications with more reliable voice and video performance. Perhaps most importantly, IPv6 makes networks like yours easier to manage.
What steps are you taking to transition your small business network to IPv6?
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WASHINGTON (CNN) -- Don't want to read a 95-page treatise on the high velocity nature of modern political reporting and its impact on presidential politics?
Cool. We've got you covered.
After covering the 2012 presidential race, a nearly two-year slog that played out as much on Twitter and debate stages as much as it did in Iowa or New Hampshire, I was lucky enough to take a five-month hiatus from the breathless news cycle and complete a spring fellowship at Harvard University's Joan Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics and Public Policy, writing a paper on the nature of today's up-tempo, web-driven brand of political reporting.
Using Mitt Romney's 2012 campaign as a case study, I interviewed roughly 70 journalists and insiders from Romney's operation, and President Barack Obama's, to figure out what's behind the fraying relationship between political professionals and the reporters who cover them.
Along with plenty of behind-the-scenes reporting, there are a number of lessons for both the press and campaigns in the paper, which I titled "Did Twitter Kill The Boys On The Bus?" You should absolutely read it by clicking here.
But in the interest of saving you some time, what follows is a CliffsNotes version. Here, then, are nine things you may not know about covering the 2012 presidential race from the front lines:
1. It ain't cheap
At the height of the general election, it could cost as much as $10,000 a week or more to embed a reporter full-time on the Romney or Paul Ryan's vice presidential campaign, a bill that usually included the cost of charter flights, bus rides, wireless Internet, "hold rooms" and food. That number was often five times higher for the television networks, which dispatched reporters, producers and camera crews to fly around with the candidates.
Several reporters interviewed for the paper provided their invoices for travel on the Romney campaign.
Six days of travel with Romney in October 2012 cost $4,080 for one reporter and his news organization, a tab that included a $9.54 food charge from Crepe Company, an Orlando dessert specialist. But that was a cheap week.
For the week of October 29 to November 5, the Romney campaign billed reporters traveling with Ryan a total of $12,805, largely for charter flights and "Ground Events."
On a single day, November 1, reporters traveling with Ryan were charged $4,381 to travel with the vice presidential nominee from Chicago to Fort Lauderdale to Las Vegas to Reno.
An editor would be forgiven for questioning the value of those flight legs, given how little news Ryan was stirring up at that point in the race.
2. It's a young person's game
Despite their many disagreements with Romney and his aides, several reporters traveling with the campaign throughout 2012 were actually sympathetic to one of the campaign's biggest gripes: that the press corps was too young.
It's always been this way, to an extent: Traveling with a presidential candidate for a year or more can be a grind. You live out of a suitcase and operate on next-to-no sleep for days on end. But the pressure in 2012 to fill multiple news platforms with content, multiple times a day, meant the newest generation of reporters had be even more hard-charging than in cycles past.
The campaign trail today attracts reporters with the kind of metabolism to thrive in this new world order. To the dismay of the Romney campaign---and their counterparts in Chicago---that meant their press retinue was young and, in their eyes, ill-equipped to cover the most far-reaching and momentous story in the country.
The lack of veteran journalists on the plane in 2012 was indeed problematic, according to many journalists who rode along with Romney in the press cabin of "Hair Force One," as some in the press dubbed their charter jet, in honor of the perfectly coiffed Republican nominee.
"I did often feel, honestly, it would have been nice to have had a layer of people with more experience to kind of look to," said one national print reporter on Romney's plane.
Several reporters who did not want to be named expressed similar regrets about the collective age of the press corps. Having seasoned political minds on board would have been nice, they said. But it also would have been useful to tap into some reliable institutional knowledge about media-campaign relations, to answer questions about access and procedures.
"I felt like I didn't have anybody to learn from," said another reporter on the plane who wished to remain anonymous. "Young reporters have always been on campaigns, but in the past there were also reporters who had traveled on a day-to-day basis who had been there and done that and had a bit of gravitas and stature and ability to throw their weight around with a campaign."
In 2008, there were plenty of young reporters mixed in with journalistic veterans traveling with Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton and John McCain. For a variety of reasons, in 2012, those veterans were mostly staying far away from the Romney bus.
This didn't mean the Romney reporters were a bunch of wide-eyed journalism rookies. To the contrary, many had experience on political beats and some had covered the previous presidential ace.
But the brand name political journalists whose bylines grace the front pages of the major newspapers were a rare sight on the Romney plane.
This was partly a problem of Romney's own making. In 2012, Romney advisers harbored so much distrust toward the press and kept the candidate so cocooned that veteran reporters did not even bother jumping on the bus to cover the Republican nominee.
Throughout the Romney campaign, there was decidedly less to "get" inside the bubble than ever before. So big foot reporters mostly ignored the bus and found stories elsewhere.
3. Nicknames -- and not nice ones
Campaign operatives sometimes come up with nicknames for the journalists that cover them.
Some in Al Gore's 2000 campaign referred to the female print reporters on their plane as "The Spice Girls." Hillary Clinton aides in 2008 referred to their cliquish band of traveling television "embeds" as "The Heathers."
The Romney press corps in 2012 liked to call themselves the "Romney Ramblers," a nod to the innovative automobile that made Romney's father George rich and famous.
David Axelrod, Obama's senior adviser, had another name for the Romney press corps, which he and others in Chicago thought were too soft on the Republican nominee. He called them "Patty Hearst."
4. News-what?
TIME and Newsweek once housed many of political journalism's liveliest storytellers and were long seen by campaigns as crucial agenda-setters for media elites and voters alike.
Karen Hughes, a top aide to George W. Bush, placed a premium on courting the magazine writers covering the Bush's 2000 campaign---including Time's Jay Carney, now President Obama's White House spokesman. Once Bush was in the White House, Hughes even held a weekly briefing for magazine writers, a routine that no longer exists.
"If they chose to put something on the cover it could drive stories for several days," Hughes said of the two magazines. "They were important."
But the time the 2012 campaign was in full bloom, there was only one newsweekly that the Obama and Romney campaigns cared about -- TIME.
Newsweek had seen its circulation tumble by a staggering 51% between 2007 and the end of 2012, when it rolled out its final print edition and moved to an all-digital format after merging with Tina Brown's website, The Daily Beast. The site was heavy on opinion writing and essays but, with few exceptions, thin on original reporting.
Full-time Romney reporters had trouble recalling any Newsweek journalists in the traveling press. One Obama press strategist described the once-mighty brand as "so unimpactful I honestly don't know what you're talking about."
That's a startling comment considering Newsweek's heavy campaign footprint in previous cycles, when they paid for multiple reporters at a time to fly around the country with a candidate---one or two writers to cover the campaign as it unfolded, and another to report only for a behind-the-scenes book project that would be printed after the election.
5. Twitter was everything
For reporters covering the 2012 race, Twitter was the usually the first iPhone app they opened bleary eyed in the morning, and the last one they peeked at before falling asleep at night.
Everyone in politics, it seemed, was on Twitter: journalists, editors, pundits, campaign managers, television producers, bureau chiefs, flacks, pollsters, activists, lobbyists, donors, wives of donors, daughters of donors, hacky operatives, buffoonish down-ballot candidates, cousins of direct mail specialists, interns desperate for re-tweets. Even Dick Morris was on Twitter.
When political news broke, Twitter was the place to find it. Top officials from the Obama and Romney campaigns would joust, publicly, via tweet. When news producers back in Washington and New York were deciding what to put on their shows, many looked first to their Twitter feeds.
"It's the gathering spot, it's the filing center, it's the hotel bar, it's the press conference itself all in one," said Jonathan Martin of The New York Times. "It's the central gathering place now for the political class during campaigns but even after campaigns. It's even more than that. It's become the real-time political wire. That's where you see a lot of breaking news. That's where a lot of judgments are made about political events, good, bad or otherwise."
Operatives in each of the campaigns understood the potency of Twitter as a way to watch, and influence, how narratives were forming among journalists.
Romney adviser Eric Fehrnstrom said Twitter "made it easier to spin" after debates.
"We knew if there was a favorable storyline that was developing on Twitter, we knew to take that and emphasize it in the spin room," he said. "If there was negative storyline that had developed during the debate we knew that that was going to be a talker in the spin room. And we would prepare a specific response to that."
6. ... and Twitter was nothing
In March of this year, the Pew Research Center released a study comparing Twitter reaction to major events to the reaction of the America public, as measured by polls.
The study examined big political moments, like Obama's 2012 State of the Union address and the Supreme Court's decision to uphold his health care reform law. Pew found a startling disconnect between how Twitter users interpreted the events versus the reaction of the public at large.
The explanation was fairly straightforward: "Twitter users are not representative of the public."
Only a "narrow sliver" of Americans --- just 13% --- were using Twitter during the fall campaign. Twitter users are younger and skew liberal. And only 3% of Twitter users "regularly or sometimes tweet or re-tweet news or news headlines on Twitter."
In other words, what political junkies were talking about on Twitter --- the news wire that directly informed what influential reporters, editors and show producers decided to write and talk about on a minute-by-minute basis --- was mostly irrelevant to the public.
7. "A link is a link, dude"
Ben LaBolt, Obama's national press secretary, said that during the 2008 campaign, his press shop could safely assume that the producers of the network television morning shows would read, or at least scan, the front page of The New York Times before going to air each day.
That was no longer the case in 2012.
The campaign correctly figured out that the political class -- reporters, producers, pundits, strategists -- was gathering information from an ever-expanding, complex patchwork of news and opinion sources beyond the dead-tree front pages of the legacy newspapers. Twitter became the clearinghouse for that news.
"That's one of the reasons why any time we got a story placed, either a proactive push on the president or a contrast on Romney, we'd create a digital package to push out with that story to make sure that people actually saw it, because we couldn't assume that getting it in the paper was enough to get it on TV nationally, and certainly not regionally," Labolt said.
In terms of reaching reporters and other people of influence, print newspapers and television news were mostly irrelevant. The content that mattered most to the press operatives working inside the campaigns was the digital product---the stories seen by political insiders who woke up in the morning and immediately starting scanning the headlines on e-mail and Twitter using their BlackBerrys or iPhones.
"A link is a link," said Matt Rhoades, Romney's campaign manager. "I've said this a million times. I used to say it going back to, like, 2004. A link is a link, dude."
It might be a link to The New York Times or Politico or RedState or ThinkProgress---an online story, no matter how biased or thinly reported, had a URL that could be peddled to other news outlets, linked to the Drudge Report and, most importantly, pumped directly into the Twitter feeding frenzy where the conventional wisdom was formed.
8. Beware the Orchestra Pit
In the course of researching the paper, I was often guided by Thomas Patterson, the press critic and Bradlee Professor of Government and the Press at Harvard. Patterson's book about the problematic role of the media in the American political process, "Out Of Order," was published 20 years ago but remains amazingly salient today. It should be required reading for any reporter or campaign professional.
In it, I came across a perfectly phrased theory that explains the political media's inclination to cover gaffes, conflict and controversies.
After the 1988 presidential race, Roger Ailes, a Republican campaign consultant who would later become the president of another television network that shall remain nameless, came up with a simple explanation for the media's approach to presidential races.
"If you have two guys on a stage and one guy says, 'I have a solution to the Middle East problem,' and the other guy falls into the orchestra pit, who do you think is going to be on the evening news?" Ailes asked.
The question, with its obvious answer, came to be known among media critics as the Orchestra Pit Theory of News.
It's not a particularly revealing or groundbreaking observation for any close watcher of politics. But it's a truism that campaigns still live by when it comes to dealing with reporters.
9. Campaigns should play nice
If there's one big takeaway from the Romney campaign's press strategy, it's that being combative with reporters is just not workable in the Twitter era.
A campaign that treats reporters with hostility and indifference is usually rewarded with negative coverage.
That may seem obvious or intuitive, but the Romney media strategy often seemed like it was specifically concocted in some Cambridge laboratory to anger reporters.
With the filter-free nature of modern journalism, any perceived slight can zoom onto Twitter and become a larger story in a matter of minutes.
It used to be that campaigns could browbeat reporters into not writing a story. It still works sometimes. But for many reporters these days, intimidation tactics aren't really viewed as a threat -- they're viewed as story.
Witness Buzzfeed's decision last year to just publish a flagrantly combative e-mail exchange between their reporter, the late Michael Hastings, and Hillary Clinton adviser Philipe Reines.
It was a series of barbed and entertaining e-mails punctuated with a memorable F-bomb from the Clinton aide. The good folks at Buzzfeed just decided to post the thread online, on their own terms, without getting consent from Reines.
It went viral in minutes.


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Installing a new rug in our 300 Hurst
Spending its entire life in Florida has been good and bad for our 36-year-old Chrysler 300. A lack of snow and salty roads has preserved our car's sheetmetal better than most cars its age. There are downfalls, however, to owning a car that has spent all its life in the sunshine state. The ultraviolet rays and extreme heat of the sun can ruin a car's paint, and cause the vinyl, leather, and carpet of the interior to become extremely deteriorated. A propensity for sudden afternoon thunderstorms often catches drivers who have left there windows down to keep their car cool off guard, flooding the interior with rain and soaking the carpet and underlying insulation. This combination of circumstances is exactly what had left the carpet in our Chrysler tattered, torn, and looking terrible. Most of the carpet was nonexistent as the previous owner had ripped it out to save the floors after the car had sat in a hurricane with the windows cracked. this saved the floorboards from major rust, but the aesthetics of the interior really suffered. Needless to say, new carpet was in order for our old Chrysler.
Installing new carpet in your car is probably the single best improvement you can make to the interior for the cost. New carpet not only makes the interior look better, but cuts down on road noise and keeps the interior insulated from the hot exhaust running underneath. Before you start a project like this, however, you must determine what caused your carpet to be ruined. If normal wear and tear is the culprit, the carpet can be replaced and should stay looking good for a long time with proper care. However, if leaky door or window seals are allowing water to damage the carpet, you should be prepared to correct these problems before putting new carpet in your car. Leaks that cause standing water in the floorboards will certainly ruin your new carpet and must be repaired. Also, be prepared to fix what you find underneath your carpet. We were lucky and just had some minor surface rust and a couple of pin holes in the floor that were easily repaired with rust inhibitor and body filler. If your car is from the northern states and has rust damage, or if your carpet has been soaked and has stayed wet for any length of time, it may need sheetmetal repairs before the new carpet is installed. Placing your car on a lift or crawling under it in the driveway before removing your old carpet will allow you to see if metal repairs are necessary before removing your original carpet.
One of the nice things about this job is that it can be done in less than a day and only requires the use of basic hand tools. You'll need a Phillips screwdriver for the kick panels and sill plates, a 1/2-inch deep well socket to remove the front seats, a 13/16-inch socket to remove the front seatbelts, and a carpet knife or razor blade to trim the carpet to fit. we've found the best way to cut holes for the seats and seatbelts is by actually melting the carpet with a soldering iron. This will burn through the carpet, backing, and insulation forming a nice round hole and cauterizing the edges, which will prevent the carpet from fraying. The upper rear seat, door panels, and rear seatbelts can be left in place. It's easiest to do this job with both doors fully open. Rather than shuffling cars around to fit the big Chrysler in the garage, we performed the work in the driveway and had the new carpet installed in about four hours.
Carpet can be obtained from any number of sources, but for our project we chose Year One. The carpet from Year One is correctly molded in two pieces to fit the contour of our specific car's floorboards, and is the same type and quality used by the factory when the car was built. Insulation pads are molded to the bottom of the carpet to provide a barrier from heat and road noise. Unlike factory carpet, however, we've found the Year One replacement is far more tolerant of ultraviolet rays and is less susceptible to fading. Year One is also a great source if you're unsure of the original color of your car's carpet. Carpeting came not only in many colors, but many shades, and Year One will send you samples that can be matched to the original carpet before you order, ensuring the proper color for your car. We suggest matching the sample to original carpet from an area that didn't fade, like under the front seats or beneath the sill plates. Since our big 300 Hurst edition came with only one color choice, our selection was easy.
After installing our carpet we noticed a huge decrease in road noise as well as significantly less heat transferring from the exhaust, through the floors, and into our passenger compartment. All of this combined to make our car much more comfortable to drive. Aesthetically, the carpet also made a huge difference, finishing out the interior and making it look much better even with the remaining imperfections. We plan to restore the rest of the interior at a later date, but for now, the carpet makes our car much more pleasant to look at as well as to drive. Not bad for just over 100 bucks and a half a day's work.


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In the preface to his new book "Journalism," Joe Sacco pinpoints the challenges of the comics artist who seeks to be a reporter: "Aren't drawings by their very nature subjective?" he asks, before answering with a simple "yes." And yet, this has been Sacco's point all along, that, in the words of Edward R. Murrow, "Everyone is a prisoner of his own experiences. No one can eliminate prejudices — just recognize them."
The rap on Sacco, of course, is that he is less a journalist than an advocate, who in such works as "Palestine" and "Footnotes in Gaza" blurs the line between observer and activist. That's true, I suppose, in the narrowest sense, but it's also reductive, and with "Journalism," he convincingly refutes the argument. It's not that Sacco doesn't take a position — or more accurately, a series of positions, since "Journalism" is a collection of short pieces that originally appeared in, among other places, Harper's, the Virginia Quarterly Review and the New York Times Magazine. For him, though, subjectivity is not an excuse but a tool. This is as true of his images as it is of his reporting strategy, which involves putting himself directly into his stories.
"The blessing of an inherently interpretive medium like comics," he writes, "is that it hasn't allowed me to lock myself within the confines of traditional journalism.... For good or for ill, the comics medium is adamant, and it has forced me to make choices. In my view, that is part of its message."
"Adamant" is a good word for "Journalism," which gathers 11 pieces that take us from the Bosnian war crimes trials at the Hague to the poverty of rural India, with stops in Chechnya, Iraq and the Occupied Territories. The result is a book that echoes Sacco's full-length efforts about the Middle East and Bosnia, while illuminating something of the way he works. In "Complacency Kills," he writes from a U.S. Marine encampment at the Haditha Dam in western Iraq, contrasting the base's "home comforts: … a well-equipped weight room, football on the chow hall's big-screen TV, and 24-hour internet connections to their wives and mothers" with the corrosive danger outside.
Sacco is rigorous about telling both sides of the story, developing sympathy for the American soldiers even as he questions their presence in Iraq. The key is his attention to the human drama, which blows open in the final frames of the story, where he describes the fate of a river unit with whom he'd gone on patrol. "The next day," he writes, "[the] unit is ambushed after landing on the river bank to investigate some small arms fire. Lance Cpl. Parrello, who piloted the boat I'd ridden on the day before, is killed. Three others are wounded, including Capt. Kuniholm, my coffee-drinking roommate at the dam."
Here we see the potent brew of Sacco's reporting, with its combination of engagement and complicity. For all that he has come to like and even to care about these Marines, what gives the narrative its final resonance is his understanding that what has befallen them could just as easily have befallen him.
This sense of identification is brought out by Sacco's visual style. His images are dramatic but straightforward, mixing informal portraits — in "The Unwanted," he uses talking heads, speaking directly to the reader, to personalize the issue of African refugees in Malta — with larger panoramas of the scenes, and in many cases the devastation, he describes.
"Chechen War, Chechen Women" features several half-page images of refugee camps, reminiscent of his work in "Footnotes in Gaza." Here, as there, the idea is to give entry to a landscape, to show how Sacco's subjects live. That's especially important because these people would be otherwise forgotten: refugees, untouchables, immigrants, struggling to survive in relocation centers or displaced person camps. It's so easy to ignore them, which is Sacco's point; his mission is to give them voice.
Nowhere does this emerge more vividly than at the end of "Chechen War, Chechen Women," where, after more than a dozen images of an aged refugee mourning her dead daughter, Sacco is handed a photo of the younger woman, but the photo offers only a hint, a few lines to suggest what was once there. The implication is stunning — that the woman's daughter has been literally erased. This is what visual storytelling has to offer, this kind of immediacy, of empathy, this ability to open up the narrative in a way that transcends words.
A similar sensibility informs French Canadian comics artist Guy Delisle's "Jerusalem: Chronicles from the Holy City," although he and Sacco have different points of view. Delisle, after all, is not a journalist; he is a father, in Jerusalem for a year with his young children and girlfriend, who works for Doctors Without Borders. Still, if his book is less reportage than travelogue, a biblically inflected "Stranger in a Strange Land," the intent, to re-create real events in comics form, is very much the same.
"Hey! These paving stones date back to the first century," Delisle realizes, wandering the Old City. "Baby Jesus could've walked on these … And Judas … And Paul and James and Luke and John and Peter and Andrew … and Simon and Matthew and Mark and … uh … I've hit a wall." That tone of both discovery and befuddlement becomes the defining sensibility of "Jerusalem," which is, remarkably, a book about the miraculous serendipity of the everyday.
This is not to say Delisle is oblivious to the conflicts of life in Israel, nor that he is apolitical. Yet the power of "Jerusalem" lies in its essential good-heartedness, Delisle's curiosity. He seems open to every experience and every type of person, from the priest who offers him studio space to the Arab Israeli who explains why he lives in a Jewish settlement: "Many Arabs have moved in for economic reasons, and little by little, our numbers are growing.... It's like we're resettling the settlements. Ha ha!" Later, at a comics workshop in Nablus, Delisle discovers a different kind of culture clash, offending many of the young Palestinians by showing images of nudity.
Still, when he encourages the remaining artists to work from their experience, the connections (and the point) are palpable. "Nablus … the big prison. That's what we call it here," a student says. Delisle's reply? "You could do a comic about that." It's a small moment, a throwaway even, but if "Jerusalem" is any indication, he is right.


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We received inquiries about the Gauss attack, which garnered significant media attention as it drew comparisons to Flame. Gauss was designed to steal system-related information and gather banking, social networking, email and instant messaging (IM) credentials. Researchers also surmised that this is possibly the latest among the strings of state-sponsored attacks, which gathered awareness with the discovery of STUXNET in 2010.
Similarities with Flame
As readers may recall, Flame was touted as a cyber espionage tool that executes several information stealing techniques including screen shots capture and audio recording. Similar to Flame, Gauss was discovered to have targeted several countries in the Middle East.
Aside from its geographic scope, Gauss and Flame share several noteworthy technical commonalities, such as:
- Both were written on the same programming language (C++)
- Employed the same .LNK exploit vulnerability (CVE-2010-2568)
- Used USB as a storage for stolen information/data
- Designed to steal browser history/cookies
- Used same encryption method (XOR)
- Contained similar command and control (C&C) structure
These shared denominators lead researchers to conclude that Gauss may be the handiwork of the same people behind Flame. Despite these similarities, Gauss was designed to focus on stealing information from Lebanese banks like Bank of Beirut, BlomBank, ByblosBank, FransaBank and Credit Libanais among others. It was also found to target other entities such as Citibank and online payment system PayPal. To some experts, this fixation on Lebanese banks was proof that this attack may be sponsored by a particular state.
Trend Micro products protect users from this by detecting and deleting the related malware and blocking access to the C&C IP addresses. We will amend this blog entry for further updates.
Update as of August 13, 2012 2:17 AM PST
Trend Micro detects the file components of this threat as TSPY_GAUSS.A.
Update as of August 15, 2012 5:35 PM PST
Trend Micro detects the related malicious JavaScript of this threat as JS_GAUSS.A. Gauss-related URLs were also blocked via web reputation service.
Coming Soon: The TrendLabs Security Intelligence Blog will be the new Malware Blog


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The Gehl Company hit the National Farm Machinery Show in full force with six new product lines, ranging from the world's largest skid-steer loader to round balers. The West Bend, WI, company boasted more new products than any other company exhibiting at the massive farm show. Here's what Gehl has to offer.
World's largest skid steer
If you're looking for digging and lifting power, check out the impressive 7800 skid-steer loader. Gehl claims this is the worldÕs biggest skid steer with an operating load rating of 3,600 lbs. and a lift height of 11 ft. 10 in. It has a 110-hp turbo diesel engine and can cruise up to 14 mph. The hydraulic system runs with 3,300-psi system relief pressure and 40-gpm, high-flow auxiliary hydraulics. The large skid steer has an extra-large cab designed to reduce operator fatigue. Retail price: $44,500. Gehl's 7600 model has a 90-hp diesel engine and an operating load rating of 3,150 lbs.
Gehl offers two new mini-loaders to tackle jobs that used to be done by hand. The Avantage mini-loaders are small, lightweight and easily maneuvered. The skid-steer model has a lift capacity of 700 lbs.; the articulated-steering model can lift up to 910 lbs. Both models are equipped with ROPS and padded seat. A 20-hp, 3-cyl. diesel engine powers the mini-loaders. Attachments, including buckets, pallet forks and trenchers, add to the unitsÕ versatility. Retail price: $22,200.
Compact power
For farmers who need a small-size skid-steer loader, Gehl offers two new compact models: the 3635 and 3935. According to the company, the loaders are quick and powerful with operating load ratings of 1,050 and 1,260 lbs. A high-torque, 3-cyl., 36-hp Yanmar engine provides fuel economy and low noise. Although the new models are compact, the company increased the size of their operator stations to improve comfort and convenience. The 3535 model retails for $18,600, and the 3935 sells for $20,500.
Excavator's dream machine
If you want to do your own dirt and excavation work, the compact Gehl excavators may fit the bill. For the first time, the company's excavators will be available through select Gehl ag dealers. The excavator line ranges from 3,600 to 25,000 lbs. and from 14 to 98 hp. Standard digging depths go from 6 ft. 10 in. to 15 ft. 9 in. The excavators feature an advanced, high-output hydraulic system that will deliver smooth operation without the loss of power or speed. The company reports these excavators are designed to be user-friendly while providing operator comfort, top digging power and maneuverability. Prices range from $24,500 to $83,000. For more information about any of these products, contact Gehl Co., Dept. FIN, Box 179, West Bend, WI 53095, 262/334-9461, or visit www.Gehl.com.
Telescoping ability
Move or haul just about anything on the farm, including bales, manure, silage and pallets, with GehlÕs new Agri-Loader. The telescopic loader provides the reach and power required for heavy livestock operation work. It boasts a 7,000-lb. operating capacity, 3 cu. yds. of bucket capacity and 30-ft. maximum lift height, all powered with a 115-hp turbo diesel engine. It is designed for easy maneuverability and a wide range of attachments, including bale forks and grapple buckets. The silage mill attachments allow the operator to bust into a packed silage trench. Retail price: $75,000.
Chew 'em up and spit 'em out
With an in-feed system that opens to almost 7 in., Gehl's new line of Variable Open Throat round balers chomp up large amounts of crop to speed haying time. The company claims that this system provides high-speed starts, faster ground speeds and increased bale capacity and produces more bales per hour.
The incoming crop is pulled off the baler's pickup by two in-feed rolls: a 6-in.-dia. pivoting roll at top and an 8-in.-dia. fixed roll on bottom. The pivoting top roll rides over the crop as it is pulled into the baling chamber. Spring tension increases as the balerÕs throat opens from 3/4 in. to a maximum of about 7 in. The constant downward force of the upper roll combined with the fixed lower roll pinches the crop and forces it into the chamber. Models 2480 STD and 2780 STD offer 540 rpm; 2580 and 2680 are available as Deluxe or Silage Special; and 2880 Deluxe offers optional 540/1,000 rpm. They range in price from $15,000 to $25,000.