Be on the look out!
From Dick Eastman
Beware of requests claiming to be from social networking sites! According to Cisco Security:
Starting this morning, Monday 9/27, at 10am GMT, cyber criminals sent spam email messages targeting the LinkedIn social media community.
Victims are emailed an alert link with a fictitious social media contact request. These messages accounted for as much as 24% of all spam sent within a 15-minute interval. Clicking the link, victims are taken to a web page that says "PLEASE WAITING.... 4 SECONDS" and redirects them to Google. During those four seconds, the victim's PC is infected with the ZeuS data theft malware by a drive-by download. ZeuS embeds itself in the victim's web browser and captures personal information, such as online banking credentials, and is widely used by criminals to pilfer commercial bank accounts.
Organizations should encourage individuals to delete such requests, especially if they do not know the name of the contact. This is the second spam attack this month, preceded by the "Here You Have" email worm a few weeks ago. Cisco expects to see more spam messages containing malware sent to organizations to collect personal information.
Numerous reports claim that banking passwords have been stolen and used.
Anyone using the Windows operating system is vulnerable. Most of the anti-virus products do not yet detect this latest scam when the email message is received, although most of the producers of those programs will be updating their virus definitions within the next few days to add detection. Most of today's anti-virus programs DO detect the ZeuS data theft malware after the PC has been infected, if the virus definitions are up to date.
Anyone using Linux, Macintosh, or any of the handheld computer operating systems will not be infected.
If you do get caught by the LinkedIn spam and experience the four-second delay, followed by a redirect to Google's home page, turn off your computer and IMMEDIATELY use a second computer, such as a laptop system or a friend's system, to log onto all your online accounts and change your passwords. Then disconnect the first system from its Internet connection, boot up, and run a virus scan. You do have the latest virus program updates installed, don't you?
You can read more in an article by Henry Stern on Cisco's security web site
Wednesday, September 29, 2010
Wednesday, September 22, 2010
About that time again for 2011 Calendars!
Can't believe September is almost over. It's fall now even though the temperature here in Alabama is still in the 90s. Before we all know it Thanksgiving, Christmas and the new year will be here. Time to start thinking of 2011 calendars.
I always have 2 calendars in my house. One in the kitchen and one on the wall right above my desk. Each one is always a theme of my interest and of course the one above my desk is always civil war, what else would it be!
So I was looking on calendars.com and they are offering a sale right now. You can get 15% off with code EM9A5 with any order plus if you order $20 or more shipping will only be $1.
I have a bad habit of waiting but not this year. Got mine!
It does expire on October 5!
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Letting you in on a little secret!
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If you have pictures that you need to develop check out Snapfish. Right now they are offering 75 free prints with the coupon code ISTOCK75. Your shipping will be around $4.42 + tax. Expires on November 30.
Plus if you are a new customer you will get 50 free prints. You have an account already then how about another adult in your household. Do they have their own?
Sunday, September 12, 2010
H.L. Hunley Will Be Set Upright For First Time Since Its Sinking In 1864
If you haven't read or heard about the H.L.Hunley being set upright since 1864...here you go.
CHARLESTON, S.C. – The Confederate submarine H.L. Hunley will be rotated early in 2011 to an upright position for the first time since it sank on Feb. 17, 1864.
That night the Hunley became the world’s first successful combat submarine by sinking an enemy vessel, the USS Housatonic, on blockade duty off Charleston.
The Hunley has been kept at the same 45-degree angle to starboard (right side) she had when first discovered in 1995 and recovered from the ocean in 2000.
Officials with the Friends of the Hunley, which raises funds for the historic vessel’s ongoing conservation, made the announcement on Aug. 8. It was the 10th anniversary of the submarine’s recovery off Sullivan’s Island, near the entrance to Charleston Harbor.
“This is a historic milestone for the Hunley Project,” said S.C. State Senator Glenn F. McConnell, chairman of the Hunley Commission, in a subsequent phone interview.
“We’re rotating the Hunley upright, which gives us access to areas that we have never seen, and it also allows us to begin the deconcretion of the vessel, which may unlock the final clues to why the Hunley didn’t come home,” McConnell said.
“It’s really a turning point in the project,” Chris Watters, Hunley Project assistant conservator, said in a phone interview.
The deconcretion of the Hunley’s surface as well as conservation required to remove the salts embedded in the iron vessel from its 136 years in the ocean require that the large slings attached to a truss which have held the submarine at its 45-degree angle be removed.
“For the public, it’s going to be great because the Hunley will be much easier to be seen without the truss there,” Watters said.
“During the chemical treatment, it needs as much surface contact as possible,” he noted. Currently the slings obscure as much as a third of it.
Rotating the Hunley “is an extraordinarily complex engineering feat,” according to Watters. “We’ve been working with engineers, Detyens Shipyards in Charleston and professional riggers.”
The rotation will be based on studies of the finite element model of the Hunley created by Dr. Vincent Blouin, assistant professor in the Clemson University Department of Materials Science and Engineering.
Blouin’s model has been developed and refined since 2006. Among other things, it conveys a “great understanding now of areas of stress ‘hot spots’ on the Hunley,” Watters said. This will be crucial for the maneuver.
The rotation will be accomplished by pulling on the starboard side of the slings while simultaneously releasing on the port side. The process will be “very slow and controlled” and should take about a week, according to Watters.
“We’ll have load cells attached to the slings and that’s going to give us a measurement of the tension, which is directly related to the weight or load that’s being placed on the slings,” he explained.
Keel blocks, which are opposable wedges that can move up and down, will hold the Hunley upright after it is rotated. There will be 12 or 13 keel blocks, made by nearby Detyens Shipyards.
As shown in Conrad Wise Chapman’s iconic painting of the submarine sitting on a dock, the Hunley was designed to sit upright when out of the water, Watters said. That is how it will be after the rotation.
More than the keel blocks will hold it up. “We’ll probably have shaped supports so it distributes a little of the weight,” he said. “And we’ll probably also have some kind of support mechanism a little bit higher up in case of an earthquake or something like that.”
McConnell said that after deconcretion is completed the final conservation treatment of the Hunley can begin — sometime around 2015, he estimated.
Then the Hunley will be moved from the Warren Lasch Conservation Center on the old Navy base in North Charleston to a state-of-the-art display facility in the redevelopment area on the waterfront.
“It will be upstream,” McConnell said. “The facility would sit out on the Cooper River. It will not be built as a ‘glass box museum,’ so-to-speak, but will be an interactive facility.”
He said the state, years ago, bought the Southern Maritime Collection. “We will combine that with the Hunley to create a world-class interactive exhibit on Civil War maritime history.”
In order to prevent further corrosion of the iron while the Hunley is on display, it will need to be sealed in an environmentally-controlled structure with very low humidity. “You can’t have corrosion in a totally dry environment,” Watters explained.
One option would be an argon enclosure, similar to how the original U.S. Constitution is kept in a sealed display case at the National Archives.
McConnell wants to explore building a working replica, but with some modern safety features like air tanks for the crew, for the 2014 sesquicentennial of the Hunley’s history-making voyage.
An obstacle to building this working replica has been the lack of a complete design specification for the vessel. The rotation will reveal some final areas of the Hunley not fully understood.
“Once we deconcrete her and get the final specs on her and see her equipment, we could build her,” McConnell said.
“It really would be exciting to see the Hunley sail again.” The Hunley Commission will discuss that when it meets in early fall.
For an animation of the planned rotation see www.youtube.com/watch?v=2S1s87Z0oqk&feature=player_embedded
The Friends of the Hunley
CHARLESTON, S.C. – The Confederate submarine H.L. Hunley will be rotated early in 2011 to an upright position for the first time since it sank on Feb. 17, 1864.
That night the Hunley became the world’s first successful combat submarine by sinking an enemy vessel, the USS Housatonic, on blockade duty off Charleston.
The Hunley has been kept at the same 45-degree angle to starboard (right side) she had when first discovered in 1995 and recovered from the ocean in 2000.
Officials with the Friends of the Hunley, which raises funds for the historic vessel’s ongoing conservation, made the announcement on Aug. 8. It was the 10th anniversary of the submarine’s recovery off Sullivan’s Island, near the entrance to Charleston Harbor.
“This is a historic milestone for the Hunley Project,” said S.C. State Senator Glenn F. McConnell, chairman of the Hunley Commission, in a subsequent phone interview.
“We’re rotating the Hunley upright, which gives us access to areas that we have never seen, and it also allows us to begin the deconcretion of the vessel, which may unlock the final clues to why the Hunley didn’t come home,” McConnell said.
“It’s really a turning point in the project,” Chris Watters, Hunley Project assistant conservator, said in a phone interview.
The deconcretion of the Hunley’s surface as well as conservation required to remove the salts embedded in the iron vessel from its 136 years in the ocean require that the large slings attached to a truss which have held the submarine at its 45-degree angle be removed.
“For the public, it’s going to be great because the Hunley will be much easier to be seen without the truss there,” Watters said.
“During the chemical treatment, it needs as much surface contact as possible,” he noted. Currently the slings obscure as much as a third of it.
Rotating the Hunley “is an extraordinarily complex engineering feat,” according to Watters. “We’ve been working with engineers, Detyens Shipyards in Charleston and professional riggers.”
The rotation will be based on studies of the finite element model of the Hunley created by Dr. Vincent Blouin, assistant professor in the Clemson University Department of Materials Science and Engineering.
Blouin’s model has been developed and refined since 2006. Among other things, it conveys a “great understanding now of areas of stress ‘hot spots’ on the Hunley,” Watters said. This will be crucial for the maneuver.
The rotation will be accomplished by pulling on the starboard side of the slings while simultaneously releasing on the port side. The process will be “very slow and controlled” and should take about a week, according to Watters.
“We’ll have load cells attached to the slings and that’s going to give us a measurement of the tension, which is directly related to the weight or load that’s being placed on the slings,” he explained.
Keel blocks, which are opposable wedges that can move up and down, will hold the Hunley upright after it is rotated. There will be 12 or 13 keel blocks, made by nearby Detyens Shipyards.
As shown in Conrad Wise Chapman’s iconic painting of the submarine sitting on a dock, the Hunley was designed to sit upright when out of the water, Watters said. That is how it will be after the rotation.
More than the keel blocks will hold it up. “We’ll probably have shaped supports so it distributes a little of the weight,” he said. “And we’ll probably also have some kind of support mechanism a little bit higher up in case of an earthquake or something like that.”
McConnell said that after deconcretion is completed the final conservation treatment of the Hunley can begin — sometime around 2015, he estimated.
Then the Hunley will be moved from the Warren Lasch Conservation Center on the old Navy base in North Charleston to a state-of-the-art display facility in the redevelopment area on the waterfront.
“It will be upstream,” McConnell said. “The facility would sit out on the Cooper River. It will not be built as a ‘glass box museum,’ so-to-speak, but will be an interactive facility.”
He said the state, years ago, bought the Southern Maritime Collection. “We will combine that with the Hunley to create a world-class interactive exhibit on Civil War maritime history.”
In order to prevent further corrosion of the iron while the Hunley is on display, it will need to be sealed in an environmentally-controlled structure with very low humidity. “You can’t have corrosion in a totally dry environment,” Watters explained.
One option would be an argon enclosure, similar to how the original U.S. Constitution is kept in a sealed display case at the National Archives.
McConnell wants to explore building a working replica, but with some modern safety features like air tanks for the crew, for the 2014 sesquicentennial of the Hunley’s history-making voyage.
An obstacle to building this working replica has been the lack of a complete design specification for the vessel. The rotation will reveal some final areas of the Hunley not fully understood.
“Once we deconcrete her and get the final specs on her and see her equipment, we could build her,” McConnell said.
“It really would be exciting to see the Hunley sail again.” The Hunley Commission will discuss that when it meets in early fall.
For an animation of the planned rotation see www.youtube.com/watch?v=2S1s87Z0oqk&feature=player_embedded
The Friends of the Hunley
Great History Magazines!
Earlier today I was looking at different historical magazines that I thought I might like to subscribe to. I wanted something a little different than the ones I presently subscribe to and I found this one. I think I would like it. I was born in '61' and grew up hearing about all the neat family stories from years gone by.
Looking Back
1 Year, 6 issues - Looking Back Magazine brings back fond memories of the happy days gone by. Readers contribute true, first-person stories and personal photographs, most never before published! Heartwarming wartime romances, old-time advertising, witty cartoons, authentic 1900-1950s photographs and more are just a sampling of the gold mine of delightful nostalgia included in each and every issue.
I also wanted to share a couple other magazine. The History Channel Magazine, which I do get and the Civil War: Weapons & Tactics Magazine. This one I do not get. I'm not much into the weapons and tactics of the Civil War but I do know a few of you are. So if you haven't heard of these, which you probably have, check them out!
The History Channel Magazine
1 Year, 6 issues - You'll find The History Channel Magazine to be one of the most in-depth, information-rich magazines on the market today. Each issue taps into the vast archives of The History Channel - loaded with the best historical photos and stories imaginable! This beautiful, full-color magazine is not sold on newsstands - it is only available by subscription. With your paid subscription to the History Channel Magazine, you will also receive a free membership in the History Channel Club - including special offers and promotions exclusively for club members!
Civil War:Weapon&Tact/Mark Seymour
1 Year, 4 issues - Civil War: Weapons & Tactics Magazine is for those interested in the American Civil War. It features articles on equipment and military techniques used by both North and South during the War. Authors of the articles range from experienced reenactors to curators of major museums. The illustrations include contemporary photographs made during the War in black and white. Some articles about significant sites of the War contain recent photographs in color.
Looking Back
1 Year, 6 issues - Looking Back Magazine brings back fond memories of the happy days gone by. Readers contribute true, first-person stories and personal photographs, most never before published! Heartwarming wartime romances, old-time advertising, witty cartoons, authentic 1900-1950s photographs and more are just a sampling of the gold mine of delightful nostalgia included in each and every issue.
I also wanted to share a couple other magazine. The History Channel Magazine, which I do get and the Civil War: Weapons & Tactics Magazine. This one I do not get. I'm not much into the weapons and tactics of the Civil War but I do know a few of you are. So if you haven't heard of these, which you probably have, check them out!
The History Channel Magazine
1 Year, 6 issues - You'll find The History Channel Magazine to be one of the most in-depth, information-rich magazines on the market today. Each issue taps into the vast archives of The History Channel - loaded with the best historical photos and stories imaginable! This beautiful, full-color magazine is not sold on newsstands - it is only available by subscription. With your paid subscription to the History Channel Magazine, you will also receive a free membership in the History Channel Club - including special offers and promotions exclusively for club members!
Civil War:Weapon&Tact/Mark Seymour
1 Year, 4 issues - Civil War: Weapons & Tactics Magazine is for those interested in the American Civil War. It features articles on equipment and military techniques used by both North and South during the War. Authors of the articles range from experienced reenactors to curators of major museums. The illustrations include contemporary photographs made during the War in black and white. Some articles about significant sites of the War contain recent photographs in color.
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