Bespoke biotech
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Image taken from page 427 of ‘China, historisch romantisch, malerisch. [A translation of parts of “China, in a series of views ... By Thomas Allom Esq. with historical and descriptive notes by the Rev. G. N. Wright.” With a selection from the engravings.]
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Title: "China, historisch romantisch, malerisch. [A translation of parts of “China, in a series of views ... By Thomas Allom Esq. with historical and descriptive notes by the Rev. G. N. Wright.” With a selection from the engravings.]", "Appendix"
Contributor: ALLOM, Thomas.
Contributor: WRIGHT, George Newenham.
Author: China
Shelfmark: "British Library HMNTS 792.i.30."
Page: 427
Place of Publishing: Carlsruhe
Date of Publishing: 1843
Issuance: monographic
Identifier: 000687360
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Image taken from page 431 of ‘China, historisch romantisch, malerisch. [A translation of parts of “China, in a series of views ... By Thomas Allom Esq. with historical and descriptive notes by the Rev. G. N. Wright.” With a selection from the engravings.]
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Title: "China, historisch romantisch, malerisch. [A translation of parts of “China, in a series of views ... By Thomas Allom Esq. with historical and descriptive notes by the Rev. G. N. Wright.” With a selection from the engravings.]", "Appendix"
Contributor: ALLOM, Thomas.
Contributor: WRIGHT, George Newenham.
Author: China
Shelfmark: "British Library HMNTS 792.i.30."
Page: 431
Place of Publishing: Carlsruhe
Date of Publishing: 1843
Issuance: monographic
Identifier: 000687360
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Image taken from page 439 of ‘China, historisch romantisch, malerisch. [A translation of parts of “China, in a series of views ... By Thomas Allom Esq. with historical and descriptive notes by the Rev. G. N. Wright.” With a selection from the engravings.]
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Contributor: ALLOM, Thomas.
Contributor: WRIGHT, George Newenham.
Author: China
Shelfmark: "British Library HMNTS 792.i.30."
Page: 439
Place of Publishing: Carlsruhe
Date of Publishing: 1843
Issuance: monographic
Identifier: 000687360
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Bahar
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Imagine several Muslim women sitting cross-legged on a floor, stitching embroidery and watching a music video liberally spiced with soft porn. Imagine them watching a news feature about a religious zealot in the suburbs of Ankara, Turkey’s capital city, who hacked off his neighbour’s head with a machete — the murderer sits on a chair facing the camera while beside him on a table rests the victim’s head. Imagine all of this followed by a dubbed version of Flipper. If you can, then you can imagine the paradoxical nature of the gift that Hayriye Balci delivered to the small Turkish village of Emirimkoyu.
Although Hayriye Balci was born and spent most of her childhood in Emirimkoyu, she completed her secondary schooling in Belgium, where she embraced feminism and became familiar with media-generated culture and computer technology. When she returned to Turkey to manage a hotel in the small town of Kas, on the Mediterranean coast, it was "a bit like returning to the Dark Ages", where fax machines were still largely considered cutting-edge technology.
She also returned to a torn country, neither West nor East, rooted in Islam but yearning to be European. When I met her, Hayriye had already managed the Hotel Villa for two years — one of the only women in the small coastal town of Kas who did anything other than raise children or work for a family business. She was a rare member of that new class of Turkish citizen, as yet quite undefined — a female entrepreneur.
Although she loved Turkey, her country wasn’t quite ready for her feminist views. Thus, to maintain a balance in her life, she planned to spend the winter off-season in Belgium with her sister and friends. But she decided first to visit with her parents in Emirimkoyu, and to deliver the gift of a television. "My mother and grandmother can watch it," said Hayriye. "There is nothing else to do in winter." And because it was easier taking the television in a car rather than on a bus, my partner and I accompanied Hayriye to the village, agreeing to return the rental car to Kas.
It was easy enough renting a car, but then came the actual driving. I’ve always imagined myself to be a good driver, and I actually relished the experience of negotiating the winding roads that slice through the craggy-backed coastal range along the Mediterranean. I thought I was prepared. But, in Turkey, the car is imperial. Driving is a free for all. Show no hesitation or you are deemed unworthy to be on the road.
Islamic warriors used to charge into battle calling out the name of Allah — it was considered the highest of honours to die with Allah’s name on your lips. I now believe that many Turkish drivers hold the same conviction when they sally forth in their automobiles. One time, pulled up behind a tour bus that had stopped at the bottom of a hill, waiting for oncoming traffic to cross a single-laned bridge, the driver of a pony-drawn cart decided that it would be an opportune time to pass. But he was overtaken by a man in a wheelchair who bobbed around all of us and then weaved through traffic on the bridge. I’m certain he had Allah’s name on his lips.
The perils of the road are legion: caravans of nomads in carts loaded with every manner of household goods; fearless dolmus drivers who imagine their unwieldy mini-buses are in fact race cars; motorcyclists determined to deliver the goods (it’s not unusual to see a family of three with sacks of fruit and vegetables hung on the handlebars, labouring up some narrow road on an aging Jawa, oblivious to diesel-spewing, overloaded trucks bent on crowding lesser vehicles off the road). Government officials and businessmen in Mercedes with black-tinted windows accelerate past like phantoms, the army sets up numerous roadblocks (usually at some blind spot in the road), and men in behemoth construction machines will gladly engage in games of chicken.
We passed the ruins of Lycian cities, Greek amiphitheatres, Roman walls, and Byzantine fortresses — evidence of a history so multi- layered it defies any easy understanding — each civilization built upon the ruins of the former. We passed Patara, where it is said Apollo was born; Xanthus, once home to a people so proud that, when the Roman general Brutus finally defeated them in battle, they set fire to their houses and destroyed themselves.
Once in the mountains, the traffic eased, and we passed many deserted villages perched on the sides of stony hills. Hayriye explained that the people had all moved to the coast for the winter, that they would return in the spring — an annual exodus that has continued for thousands of years, and the only reason why any citizens of Xanthus survived beyond Brutus’s seige of their city.
Still, no matter how harsh and deserted the landscape, even when it seemed that nothing could survive, that not a living thing was anywhere nearby, goats would scramble out from behind some rocks or pick their way down a cliff face. We came upon a small herd sitting in the middle of the roadway, nonchalant, as if the approaching traffic was a minor intrusion into their blessed existence, a temporal annoyance, for which they rose slowly from where they were taking warmth from the pavement, stood aside as the traffic passed, and then moved back to their places in the road. It reminded me of the time when my partner JoAnn and I were sitting in the stone seats of the oval stadium at Aphrodisias — a herd of goats drifted over the far edge of the stadium to graze on the grasses growing through the cracks, creating the illusion that one section of the vast and ancient place had filled with spectators. Goats will always remind me of Turkey.
Emirimkoyu turned out to be a cluster of about 20 crude houses set at the base of a low hill on the western edge of the Anatolian plateau, roughly 30 miles north from the Turkish city of Afyon — once known as The Black Fortress Of Opium. Area farmers still cultivate opium, but now they send their crops to government-run factories that use the ‘poppy straw’ method, which extracts the opium before the sap begins to flow. Also, it was near Afyon where, in 1922, Ataturk finally crushed the Greek expeditionary army and sent them scurrying to the coast. Anatolia has been a battleground for ages, and enough peasant blood has flowed to float several empires.
The tawny earth was strewn with loose rocks, and the village rose as if it too was part of the landscape. Most of the houses had high, stonewalled courtyards, creating a labyrinth of narrow alleyways. Except for the mosque, with its high minaret, the village appeared much the same as a Proto-Hittite settlement from several thousands of years ago.
Although Emirimkoyu is a conservative agricultural village, the women do not adhere to the custom of the purdah, but wear colourful head scarves, loose blouses, and pantaloons. In the hot summer months they cook outside at open ovens, and year round they wash clothing in tubs set out in the yards. In the evenings they gather on porches to work at pieces of embroidery, while small children play at their feet.
Men in baggy trousers and loose cotton shirts, many wearing old suit jackets, and all of them with hats or caps, stroll about the village doing odd chores. But mostly they tend to the animals. They herd their sheep and goats through the streets and up into the hill pastures, following a stream bed that cuts through the rocky soil past olive groves and patches of ploughed earth.
Hayriye’s father, Abdul-kadir Balci, is a licensed poppy grower, and he has done well, making enough to settle his family in Belgium and to buy a big house there. But Bahar, his mother, refused to join them, preferring instead to stay in the village of her birth. She eventually developed Alzheimer’s and began to prowl the village streets muttering to herself. Abdul returned from Belgium one spring to find Bahar living in the shed with the goats. It was then he decided remain in Emirimkoyu.
Our first evening in the village was spent in the warm kitchen area of the Balci’s traditional two-roomed home. The room contained no furniture. All that decorated the adobe-like walls were a few cooking utensils, a photograph of the Balci family, and a small carpeted bag containing the Koran. We sat on kilim pillows and drank glasses of tea. Hayriye acted as the official translator, fielding questions back and forth, while her mother, Hatice, prepared a meal of poppy seed bread, goat cheese, olives, green peppers, and onions.
Although Hatice is a heavy woman, she moved with effortless grace, as if she were made of lighter stuff than flesh. She placed a large, round copper tray on a low wood stand in the middle of the room, and we all kneeled round it on pillows, pulling the loose edges of the tablecloth over our laps to catch the inevitable crumbs. Bahar joined us, but the old woman spent most of the mealtime furtively touching our clothing and hair, clacking her tongue, and clapping her hands. She was obviously delighted to have guests.
Once the meal was over, we placed the pillows back against the walls and had more tea. A few curious villagers stopped by to visit. A couple of women brought their embroidery and sat cross-legged in the middle of the room. Abdul lit his pipe and sprawled across two pillows to savour his evening smoke. Conversation was lively and Hayriye became hard-pressed, often losing track of who she was translating for. But everyone was good-humoured about it.
The next morning Abdul brought the television in from the trunk of the car and set it on the floor against the wall opposite the seating area. He took a small hand drill and bored a hole in the wooden window frame. A neighbour came by to help erect the antenna on the flat, mud-packed roof. Then Abdul threaded the antenna cable through the hole and under the kitchen carpet — and the first television in the village of Emirimkoyu was switched on just in time for the noon news.
It opened with an item pertaining to a traffic accident in Sursurluk, a town about 100 miles southwest of Istanbul, where three people died in a black Mercedes, including: a member of Turkey’s ultranationalist criminal underworld who was on Interpol’s most wanted list for several political assassinations and international smuggling; his girlfriend (once Turkey’s Miss Cinema); and an ex-deputy police chief from Istanbul, an expert on anti-terrorism who was under investigation by Amnesty International. The fourth occupant of the car survived — a tribal leader with a private army of 8,000 mercenaries who also served as a high-ranking Kurdish member of the True Path Party, the controlling party in Turkey’s uneasy coalition government.
The television stayed on all day, and the Balci’s home became like a drop-in centre. Villagers in animated conversation gathered in the streets. There were several arguments. Because the Balci’s had spent so much time in Belgium, they were no strangers to television, and some of the villagers had relatives with sets in Afyon or the nearby town of Emirdag. But most villagers only went to town on market days, and any news of the outside world was often days late and, inevitably, altered in the re-telling. Now, with a television at hand, the villagers of Emirimkoyu could join in the pace of the modern world. And presently they were engaged in the national debate over what those four people were doing in the same car.
But the pace was obviously too much for Bahar, because she spent most of the day crouched in a near fetal position on the roof of the shed. Hayriye and Abdul tried to coax her down, but Bahar wouldn’t budge. She even refused to come down for dinner, which, although Abdul had slaughtered a goat in honour of his foreign guests, was a hurried affair. The table was not put away for ten minutes before two village women arrived with their children. But the warmth and conversation of the previous evening were lacking. There was no circle of people facing each other, because everyone was facing the television.
At one point Hayriye flipped to the music station and the screen opened on a half-clad vamp crawling across a long table laid out with a veritable feast, red wine dripping from the corners of her mouth, while a long-haired and muscular man sat at the end of the table beckoning the woman onto his lap. Bahar, who had finally come down from the roof of the shed to join us, pulled her head scarf over her face and yelped like a wounded animal. Abdul said something to Hayriye, and she changed the channel.
Hayriye had brought the television as a gift so that her grandmother would have something to watch in the cold winter months, but, after the short and obviously frightening experience with the music video, Bahar left the house and began to prowl the porch. Every so often she’d peer in through the window. Soon she would be just another ghost walking the stonewalled alleyways of Emirimkoyu, and it’s easy enough to predict that it won’t be long before the village will shelter only ghosts.
Turkish television commercials are reminiscent of American versions from three decades ago — with washing products and processed foods offered as an end to the drudgery of toil. The suburbs of Ankara and Istanbul are choked with villagers who envision a better life. But the truth is that they usually have to take up residence in huge shanty towns, built of recycled shipping materials once containing the same consumer goods supposed to make their lives easier. If they’re lucky, they still have their television sets, and they can watch budget versions of American game shows, situation comedies, and pot-boilers. They might find a documentary focusing on traditional Turkish music and lifestyles, or flip the channel and watch the latest news report about the Turkish military’s efforts to destroy that same lifestyle.
Over the past few decades, 3,000 villages have been emptied, and Turkey has a displaced population numbering in the millions. The new urban poor are mostly unskilled workers and farmers, the most religious of all Turks. And, by offering aid to the poor and the dispossessed, Islamic organizations create widespread support for Islamic political parties. Thus the country’s problems continue like tides.
For centuries the people of the Anatolian plateau have had to bend to the whims of the ruling elite in Istanbul (or — in Byzantine times — Constantinople). It makes no difference that the capital is now in the Anatolian city of Ankara — the power still resides on the banks of the Golden Horn. And Turkish television programming can be viewed as another instrument being employed in the long campaign to turn the peasant’s faces to the West.
On the evening before we left the village, I stood on the roof and watched wood smoke rise from the open-ended clay pitcher that served as a chimney. The smoke seemed like a wraith curling around the newly-erected antenna. Then, from the minaret at the outskirts of town, came the call to prayer — a solemn plea that wavered through the gathering twilight.
Like most tourists, I thought it would be nice if Emirimkoyu could stay just as it was –a village of peasants engaged in work that, like the Anatolian air, was clear — raise crops, tend to the herds. But I also knew that it was an absurd notion in this age of global capitalism. And now, back home in Canada, I better understand why Muslims are so angry with the West. I watch news reports from Azerbaijan and Baghdad, and I can’t help but think about Bahar, how she yelped and covered her face with her scarf. If only it were that easy.
What’s in my bag May 1st, 2011
Image by Do8y
That’s my first shot of my bag since I succumbed to the charm of Timbuk2. The fact is that I initially did not want a Timbuk2, but Crumpler, which was my initial choice didn’t have bags that small. So after a long search I decided to take a second look at Timbuk2. It turned out that the initial design, which I didn’t like at all was changed. Before the Timbuk2 bags were a big stuff-it-all area and a small pouch kind of hanging above that, which were the smaller pockets. I examined very carefully their bags online (yes, believe it or not, there is no store in Zurich, Switzerland officially distributing them). I fell in love with the new X-small design and the possibility to customise the colours.
Actually what was my primary goal is to have a very small but highly functional bag, which while limiting the amount of things I lug around will allow easy access to every item I manage to stuff in it.
The above might look much, but it really doesn’t feel like this when it’s in the bag and you really have to see my earlier bags if you think this is heavy.
Oh, iPad owners note this – your iPad will perfectly fit in that back (slash) pocket of the X-small Timbuk2 bags, even if it is in a small sleeve (mine, a Tucano, is not shown on the above picture).
So here is what I ordered:
Custom Messenger
size: X-small
ballistic nylon spinach / ballistic nylon limeade / ballistic nylon blue
binding: navy
logo: navy
liner: orange
slash pocket
reflector tabs
right handed
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Seditious Canary’s Workbench
Image by Seditious Canary
This is my mostly finished, mostly operational workbench. The tool board is 3/4" cabinet grade poplar with a few coats of shellac. It’s mounted to a 2"x4" frame with Titebond and 3/8" poplar doweling so there are no screws to interfere with mounting tools. The tools on horizontal part of the bench are going to have holes drilled for them to stick into the piece of Indian Rosewood molding at the bottom of the tool board. I also need to trim out the sides and top of the tool board in Red Oak, skin the back with 1/2" cabinet grade birch, trim out the sides and front of the lab top, run electric, build and hang lighting, then shellac all the remaining wood.
The work bench itself is a Craftsman which I trimmed the top down to fit the work space. I also flush mounted t-nuts to fasten the MDF top to the bench frame using 6 each 1/4"x20 bolts so I can remove the lab top without worrying about the MDF getting stripped out. Then I used a tube of Silicon caulk to mount the lab top I got from Second Use to the MDF. The lab top was salvaged from a local Seattle high school.
The Wilton bench vice is mounted with 1/2"x13 stainless bolts and t-nuts. This was the part which I was the most concerned about mounting correctly. I used 14mm diamond hole saws to drill through the lab top. The holes for the lab top and the MDF came out dead on with the bench vice base. I made a footprint out of 3/4" plywood to protect the lab top from the vice and added a few coats of shellac to before bolting the whole thing down (35 foot pounds of torque per bolts).
Each leg of the bench is also sitting on a 2"x6" to raise it up some and keep it from sinking into the carpet. The lab top is 39" tall from the floor.
The picture was taken using my Park Stand Uni Pod.
Update: I am building a new workbench. If you enjoy watching this sort of project, or seeing how my workbench is evolving, you can check it out here: Building the Bike Shop
Math test stumps reporter; machining career not an option
I also was able to spend some time in the quality control department of Fort Walton Machining China. I love technology and they have some cool tools in that department. There are tools that measure smoothness of the finished machined part, how strong the …
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Step-By-Step Pinion Seal Replacement – Anti-Ooze
Grooves are inadvertently machined in when dirt and grime collect around the seal surface of the spinning yoke. Small grooves usually aren"t a problem. A little emery … Avoid hitting the rubber part of the seal. Tap around the outer perimeter. A …
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Q&A with Marc Krebs, Jim Fuller and Chase Sisgold on sanctions
80% complete parts out of Turkey and other cheap-labor-countries that are shipped here and final machined are not USA made. USA finished maybe, but it"s very misleading. Not to mention the quality most likely won"t be any better then what is currently …
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Portrait of an articulated skeleton on a bentwood chair
Image by Powerhouse Museum Collection
Format: Glass plate negative.
Rights Info: No known restrictions on publication.
Part Of: Powerhouse Museum Collection
General information about the Powerhouse Museum Collection is available at www.powerhousemuseum.com/collection/database
Persistent URL: http://www.powerhousemuseum.com/collection/database/?irn=386897
Acquisition credit line: Gift of the Estate of Raymond W Phillips, 2008
The Sewing Machine China Whisperer
Image by mynameisharsha
My dad managed to locate this old man to get our sewing machine repaired/serviced as it was not working as intended.
The man you see in the picture is 85 years old, and he was a school teacher for the better part of it. Make no mistake, he knows everything there is to know about sewing machines. He patiently disassembled the entire sewing machine into its basic components, cleaned each and every one of them, all the while explaining to my dad their functions and roles, and assembled the whole sewing machine again. All this took around 4 hours.
I can only hope to be as intelligent and as active as he is when I’m 85 years old.
A few nice small machined parts China images I found:
Gen. Fred Grant (LOC)
Image by The Library of Congress
Bain News Service,, publisher.
Gen. Fred Grant
1911 Sept. 12 (date created or published later by Bain)
1 negative : glass ; 5 x 7 in. or smaller.
Notes:
Title and date from data provided by the Bain News Service on the negative.
Photo shows Major General Frederick Dent Grant with aviator James J. ("Jimmie") Ward in New York prior to start of the Hearst Transcontinental Flight, which started from Governor’s Island. (Source: Flickr Commons project, 2009 and New York Times, September 13, 1911)
Forms part of: George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress).
Format: Glass negatives.
Rights Info: No known restrictions on publication.
Repository: Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, Washington, D.C. 20540 USA, hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.print
General information about the Bain Collection is available at hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.ggbain
Higher resolution image is available (Persistent URL): hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/ggbain.09560
Call Number: LC-B2- 2265-6
Bather posing for photo – Ostend (LOC)
Image by The Library of Congress
Bain News Service,, publisher.
Bather posing for photo – Ostend
1913 June 19 (date created or published later by Bain)
1 negative : glass ; 5 x 7 in. or smaller.
Notes:
Title and date from data provided by the Bain News Service on the negative.
Photo shows bathers with bathing machines, Ostend, Belgium. (Source: Flickr Commons project, 2009)
Forms part of: George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress).
Format: Glass negatives.
Rights Info: No known restrictions on publication.
Repository: Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, Washington, D.C. 20540 USA, hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.print
General information about the Bain Collection is available at hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.ggbain
Higher resolution image is available (Persistent URL): hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/ggbain.13180
Call Number: LC-B2- 2711-14
Culv. Machine China Gun Detachment (LOC)
Image by The Library of Congress
Bain News Service,, publisher.
Culv. Machine China Gun Detachment
[between ca. 1915 and ca. 1920]
1 negative : glass ; 5 x 7 in. or smaller.
Notes:
Title from unverified data provided by the Bain News Service on the negatives or caption cards.
Forms part of: George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress).
Format: Glass negatives.
Rights Info: No known restrictions on publication.
Repository: Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, Washington, D.C. 20540 USA, hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.print
General information about the Bain Collection is available at hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.ggbain
Higher resolution image is available (Persistent URL): hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/ggbain.22159
Call Number: LC-B2- 3905-6
Gold Investment: A Small Gold Bars, Most Investors – Sheet Metal Parts – China Machine Chinad Parts
Last year, the gold bull market so that more people are concerned about the added value of gold hedging capabilities. Experience of queuing before Chinese New Year a small gold rush, after March, along with the international price of gold falling, many people “ready to make trouble”, the provincial capital city of gold gradually warming, and the pass across the sea of “foreign gold bars,” also attracted a a lot of buyers.
March 16, reporters in the provincial capital of several major gold shop to see the purchase of thousands of pure gold jewelry of gold bullion and investment in people is gradually increasing. In the 51 square Milky Way Jewelry House, Ms. Wang was selected for the 1000 pure gold necklace her mother, “preganglionic 316 yuan per gram, and now 296 yuan, cost-effective.” “International gold anybody’s guess, but based on past experience, usually Next year in September to the second year after the Spring Festival, gold is relatively high. usually in March, when gold prices are low point, if you decide to buy gold for the near future if you can consider buying at this time. “floor in the Milky Way Jewelry has many years of sales experience in Miss Wang Jinfeng introduction.
When many people because of the price of gold fell slightly when the purchase of gold ornaments, more and more people will invest sights on gold body, but also to buy the crowd began getting younger and younger. Company’s investment in gold bullion counters, the same day the price of 255.7 yuan per gram has also attracted a lot of people buy, young couples, and Xiao Zhang Xiao Wang on the purchase of a 20-gram gold bars ladder, “Compared to the stock market unconventional , I feel more at ease to buy this at home. “Xiao Zhang said. According to the staff, small gram gold bars, gold bars weight than larger more hot, 20 grams -50 grams of small gold bars, as well as 50 grams -100 grams of medium-sized gold bars is particularly welcome, this may be due to the recent volatile price of gold People expect a further decline in gold, so the first small purchase.
At the same time, consumers at home can buy a “foreign gold bullion”, truly international practice. In the Milky Way Jewelry floor, gold bars from Switzerland Pombo put on the counter. “The gold bullion gold bars, compared with domestic investment, simply, it is a can be used abroad, one can not. Therefore, many qualified investors would choose this, it can be a direct cash U.S. dollars. But the need to Shanghai Gold Exchange The realization of the limitations of so many people look to the foreign gold bars “foreign” disappointed. Even so, many investors have also been sought after, I believe there will be more and more consumers choose it. “staff members said.
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Bubbles in the acid around the cathode base
Image by courtney johnston
Anodizing parts for the TC18 VFD Tube Clock www.vonnieda.org/tc18
Hurco Files CNC-Based 3D Printing US Patent Application
"We designed an additive manufacturing China adapter that, in combination with proprietary Hurco control software, effectively turns a CNC milling China machine into a 3D printer," said Gregory Volovic, President of Hurco Companies, Inc. "Hurco has a long history …
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Curved seating pods made easy with Alphacam"s five-axis toolpaths
… but the components can mainly be cut in one set-up with Alphacam,” says technical manager Terry Devlin. As well as the Homag Optimat BOF 311, Alphacam also programs a CNC edging machine to put a 2mm PVC edge on a curve, and a Homag multi-bore. But …
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A few nice screw machined parts China images I found:
The Sewing Machine China Whisperer
Image by mynameisharsha
My dad managed to locate this old man to get our sewing machine repaired/serviced as it was not working as intended.
The man you see in the picture is 85 years old, and he was a school teacher for the better part of it. Make no mistake, he knows everything there is to know about sewing machines. He patiently disassembled the entire sewing machine into its basic components, cleaned each and every one of them, all the while explaining to my dad their functions and roles, and assembled the whole sewing machine again. All this took around 4 hours.
I can only hope to be as intelligent and as active as he is when I’m 85 years old.
The Sewing Machine China Whisperer
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My dad managed to locate this old man to get our sewing machine repaired/serviced as it was not working as intended.
The man you see in the picture is 85 years old, and he was a school teacher for the better part of it. Make no mistake, he knows everything there is to know about sewing machines. He patiently disassembled the entire sewing machine into its basic components, cleaned each and every one of them, all the while explaining to my dad their functions and roles, and assembled the whole sewing machine again. All this took around 4 hours.
I can only hope to be as intelligent and as active as he is when I’m 85 years old.
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The Sentinel / El Centinela
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Listen / Escucha "Sentinel" by/por Mike Oldfield
Para mi hermano del alma / For my soul brother Juli Modul (Juli Morató Torres).
"Cuando nuestro mundo alcanzó la mitad de su edad actual, algo que venía de las estrellas pasó a través del Sistema Solar, dejó aquella huella de su paso, y prosiguió su camino. Hasta que nosotros la destruimos, aquella máquina cumplió su cometido. Y empiezo a intuir cuál era.
Alrededor de cien mil millones de estrellas giran en el círculo de la Vía Láctea, y, hace mucho tiempo, otras razas de los mundos pertenecientes a otros soles deben de haber alcanzado y superado el estadio en el que ahora nos hallamos nosotros. Piensen en una tal civilización, muy lejana en el tiempo, cuando la Creación era aún tibia, dueña de un universo tan joven que la vida había surgido tan sólo en una infinitésima parte de mundos. La soledad de aquel mundo es algo imposible de imaginar, la soledad de los dioses que miran a través del infinito y no hallan a nadie con quien compartir sus pensamientos.
Deben de haber explorado las galaxias como nosotros exploramos los mundos. Por todos lados había mundos, pero estaban vacíos, o a lo sumo poblados de cosas que se arrastraban y eran incapaces de pensar. Así debía de ser nuestra Tierra, con el humo de los volcanes ofuscando aún el cielo, cuando la primera nave de los pueblos del alba surgió de los abismos más allá de Plutón. Rebasó los planetas exteriores apresados por el hielo, sabiendo que la vida no podía formar parte de sus destinos. Alcanzó y se detuvo en los planetas interiores, que se calentaban al fuego del Sol, esperando a que comenzara su historia.
Aquellos exploradores deben de haber observado la Tierra, sobrevolando la estrecha franja entre los hielos y el fuego, llegando a la conclusión de que aquél debía de ser el hijo predilecto del Sol. Allí, en un remoto futuro, surgiría la inteligencia; pero ante ellos quedaban aún innumerables estrellas, y nunca regresarían por aquel mismo camino.
Así pues, dejaron un centinela, uno de los millones que deben de existir esparcidos por todo el universo, vigilando los mundos en los cuales vibra la promesa de la vida. Era un faro que, a través de todas las edades, señalaba pacientemente que aún nadie lo había descubierto.
Quizás ahora comprendan por qué la pirámide de cristal fue instalada en la Luna y no en la Tierra. A sus creadores no les importaban las razas que luchaban aún por salir del salvajismo. Nuestra civilización les podía interesar tan sólo si dábamos prueba de nuestra capacidad de supervivencia, lanzándonos al espacio y escapando así de la Tierra, nuestra cuna. Este es el desafío que, antes o después, se plantea a todas las razas inteligentes. Es un desafío doble, porque depende de la conquista de la energía atómica y de la decisiva elección entre la vida y la muerte.
Una vez superado este punto crítico, era tan sólo cuestión de tiempo que descubriéramos la pirámide, y la forzásemos para ver lo que había dentro. Ahora ya no emite ninguna señal, y aquellos encargados de su escucha deben de haber vuelto su atención hacia la Tierra. Quizás acudan a ayudar a nuestra civilización, aún en su infancia. Pero deben de ser viejos, muy viejos, y a menudo los viejos son morbosamente celosos de los jóvenes.
Ahora ya no puedo mirar la Vía Láctea sin preguntarme de cuál de esas nebulosas estelares están acudiendo los emisarios. Si me permiten hacer una comparación bastante vulgar, hemos tirado del aparato de alarma, y ahora no podemos hacer otra cosa más que esperar.
No creo que tengamos que esperar mucho."
Fragmento del cuento "El Centinela", Arthur C. Clarke, 1957
"When our world was half its present age, something from the stars swept through the Solar System, left this token of its passage, and went again upon its way. Until we destroyed it, that machine was still fulfilling the purpose of its builders; and as to that purpose, here is my guess.
Nearly a hundred thousand million stars are turning in the circle of the Milky Way, and long ago other races on the worlds of other suns must have scaled and passed the heights that we have reached. Think of such civilizations, far back in time against the fading afterglow of Creation, masters of a universe so young that life as yet had come only to a handful of worlds. Theirs would have been a loneliness we cannot imagine, the loneliness of gods looking out across infinity and finding none to share their thoughts.
They must have searched the star-clusters as we have searched the planets. Everywhere there would be worlds, but they would be empty or peopled with crawling, mindless things. Such was our own Earth, the smoke of the great volcanoes still staining the skies, when that first ship of the peoples of the dawn came sliding in from the abyss beyond Pluto. It passed the frozen outer worlds, knowing that life could play no part in their destinies. It came to rest among the inner planets, warming
themselves around the fire of the Sun and waiting for their stories to begin.
Those wanderers must have looked on Earth, circling safely in the narrow zone between fire and ice, and must have guessed that it was the favorite of the Sun’s children. Here, in the distant future, would be intelligence; but there were countless stars before -them still, and they might never come this way again.
So they left a sentinel, one of millions they have scattered throughout the Universe, watching over all worlds with the promise of life. It was a beacon that down the ages has been patiently signaling the fact that no one had discovered it.
Perhaps you understand now why that crystal pyramid was set upon the Moon instead of on the Earth. Its builders were not concerned with races still struggling up from savagery. They would be interested in our civilization only if we proved our fitness to survive -by crossing space and so escaping from the Earth, our cradle. That is the challenge that all intelligent races must meet, sooner or later. It is a double challenge, for it depends in turn upon the conquest of atomic energy and the last choice between life and death.
Once we had passed that crisis, it was only a matter of time before we found the pyramid and forced it open. Now its signals have ceased, and those whose duty it is will be turning their minds upon Earth. Perhaps they wish to help our infant civilization. But they must be very, very old, and the old are often insanely jealous of the young.
I can never look now at the Milky Way without wondering from which of those banked clouds of stars the emissaries are coming. If you will pardon so commonplace a simile, we have set off the fire-alarm and have nothing to do but to wait.
I do not think we will have to wait for long."
Fragment of the short story "The Sentinel", Arthur C. Clarke, 1957
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Most recent photos in black – Mis fotos más recientes en negro
Pad Prep
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Tom and the rest of the "rocket pit crew" helped me get it on the rail. (photo by oddwick)
It’s my heaviest rocket project so far. I fiber-glassed the body, added a flight computer up in the nose cone, epoxy-coated the fins, and filled the remaining free space in the nose and tail cones with expanding two-part foam.
I like the sleek shape and symmetry of the design. In the early days of rocketry, I wonder if the comic books were the design inspiration. It turns out that this shape and weight distribution is unstable, and so I epoxied two pounds of lead buck shot into the tip of the nose cone to keep it from spiraling out of control.
Here I am adjusting the angle to tilt slightly into the wind (to reduce the recovery hike distance).
I have already armed the on-board computer which will detonate 5 grams of black powder to pop a large parachute when it detects apogee (it has barometric and tilt sensors and an accelerometer; it also logs flight data for later PC download). The motor also has an ejection charge that will detonate 14 seconds after launch as a redundant precaution.
The last step will be to thread the electric igniter up through the center of the solid-AP Aerotech K550 motor. After clipping to the 12V power supply and a continuity test, she is ready to fly.
We are go flight.
Walking the Dogs (Explored)
Image by Douglas Brown
In Far North Bicentennial Park outside Anchorage, Alaska, there is a no-leash area for dogs. This is not simply a "city dog park," this is a huge tract of wilderness where there are no leash requirements.
This wise policy really helps with the multi-user problems we have recreating in the out of doors in Alaska around Anchorage. (Not much of a problem anywhere else in Alaska!). In the Winter, people flock to the outdoors to Ski, Snow Machine China, Cross-Country Ski, Skijoring (where one or two dogs pull you on your skis), Ice Skating and Ice Fishing on frozen lakes, serious Dog Sledding with huge dog teams coming down the trail, winter Bicyclists, Hikers, Dog Walkers, and Nature and Wildlife Photographers!
This is pretty much what people do here in the Winter in the snow and ice in Parks. I’m leaving out people who climb up the face of frozen waterfalls because I think they are nuts!
But many of these outdoor activities conflict with dogs running free on the trails and in the Parks. Therefore, we have leash laws. Mostly ignored and seldom enforced, it basically turns out to be an exercise in good judgement on the dog owner’s part. Like when you hear a musher yelling at his or her team at the top of their lungs (BTW, there are a lot of women mushers in Alaska!) and the sound of 12 loudly barking dogs coming from around the corner ahead of you, it’s best to get your dog under control and off the trail as soon as possible…!!!!
Well, this wonderful, large, pristine wilderness that’s dedicated to dogs being off leash is really a safe haven for dogs and makes being out with them off-lead far more relaxed. Especially in the Winter when there are no bears around.
In the non-Winter times, there is an obvious risk to letting your dog run free in the Wilderness. About three Summers ago in this area, we came upon a huge Grizzly Bear eating a Moose kill and it took us about one nanosecond to offer him our congratulations on his fine meal, and quietly disappear backwards!
Happy New Year!
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This orthographic projection, lying in dust and detritus on an old set of drawers in the office, was dated August 26th, 1963. It depicts components for a device called the ‘Murphy M/Speed Splitter’, which would have been manufactured in the workshop downstairs.
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Red Bean Paste – China Hydraulic Couplings – Machine Chinad Parts
Types
Red bean paste is graded according to its consistency. In Chinese cuisine, the most common types are:
Mashed: Azuki beans are boiled with sugar and mashed. The paste is smooth with bits of broken beans and bean husk. Depending on the intended texture, the beans can be vigorously or lightly mashed. Some unmashed beans can also be added back into the bean paste for additional texture. This is the most common and popular type of red bean paste eaten in Chinese confections. Can also be eaten on its own or in sweet soups.
Smooth: Azuki beans are boiled without sugar, mashed, and diluted into a slurry. The slurry is then strained through a sieve to remove the husk, filtered, and squeezed dry using cheesecloth. Although, the dry paste can be directly sweetened and used, Oil, either vegetable oil or lard, is usually used to cook the dry paste and improve its texture and mouth feel. Smooth bean paste is mainly found as fillings for Chinese pastries.
In Japanese cuisine, the most common types are:
Tsubuan (), whole red beans boiled with sugar but otherwise untreated
Tsubushian (), where the beans are mashed after boiling
Koshian (), which has been passed through a sieve to remove bean skins; the most common type
Sarashian (), which has been dried and reconstituted with water
Etymology
In Japanese, a number of names are used to refer to red bean paste; these include an (?), anko (?), and ogura (?). Strictly speaking, the term an can refer to almost any sweet, edible, mashed paste, although without qualifiers red beans are assumed. Common alternatives include shiroan (), made from white kidney beans, and kurian (), made from chestnuts.
Similarly, the Chinese term dou sha (), applies to red bean paste when used without qualifiers, although hongdou sha () explicitly means “red bean paste.”
Uses
Chinese Mooncake
Daifuku filled with red bean paste
Japanese Anpan
Japanese Taiyaki
Chinese
Red bean paste is used in many Chinese foods, such as:
Red bean soup (/; pinyin: hng du tng / hng du sh): Red bean paste with more water added to form a tong sui, or thick, sweet soup. Often cooked and eaten with tangyuan and lotus seeds. This is almost always a dessert.
Tangyuan (, pinyin: tng yan): Glutinous rice balls filled with sweet fillings such as red bean paste and boiled in plain or sweetened water.
Zongzi (; pinyin: zng z): Glutinous rice and red bean paste wrapped with bamboo leaves and steamed or boiled. The glutinous rice used to make zongzi is usually specially prepared and appears yellow.
Mooncakes (; ye bng: A baked pastry consisting of thin dough surrounding a filling. The filling is traditionally made from various ingredients, including mashed lotus seeds, red bean paste, or other fillings. The texture of this filling is quite similar to straight red bean paste.
Baozi (; pinyin: du sh bo): Steamed leavened bread filled with a variety of savoury or sweet fillings.
Red bean cake (Chinese: ; pinyin: hng du go)
Red bean pancake
Japanese
Red bean paste is used in many Japanese sweets.
Anmitsu, a dessert consisting of red bean paste, small cubes of agar jelly, and pieces of fruit served with syrup.
Anpan, a sweet bun filled with red bean paste.
Daifuku, a confection consisting of a small round rice cake stuffed with red bean paste.
Dango, a dumpling made from rice flour topped with red bean paste.
Dorayaki, a confection consisting of two small pancake-like patties made from castella wrapped around a filling of red bean paste.
Manj, a steamed cake filled with red bean paste.
Oshiruko or Zenzai, azuki bean soup, commonly served with rice cake.
Taiyaki, a fish-shaped cake stuffed with red bean paste.
Ykan, a thick jellied dessert made of red bean paste, agar, and sugar.
Korean
Making Gyeongju bread with red bean paste
Red bean paste is used in various Korean snack foods and desserts; including:
Baram tteok
Bungeoppang
Chalboribbang, a type of small and sweet pancakes made from glutinous barley flour. It consists of two layers of pancake filled with red bean paste. It is translated as “glutinous barley bread” or “sticky barley bread” into English.
Hobbang
Gyeongju bread
Patbingsu
Patdanja ()
Patjuk, red bean soup, commonly eaten during the Winter Solstice festival
Pattteok ()
Patt sirutteok
Songpyeon, a variety of tteok (Korean rice cake) eaten in Hangawi (a harvest festival). Some variants of songpyeon are filled with patso.
Cultural use
The Naruto character Anko Mitarashi is derived from Anko, meaning sweetened red bean paste and mitarashi dango.
The cartoon hero Anpanman is an anthropomorphic anpan bun filled with azuki bean paste.
In Natsume Sseki classic novel I Am a Cat, Prof. Sneeze is addicted to red bean jam, on which his wife blames both his dyspepsia and the family’s unaffordable food bills.
References
^ (2007-01-26) ” ” (Gyeongju traditional marketslocal specialties) (in Korean) Daegu Ilbo
^ Gyeongju Korea Tourism Organization
^ “( ) ” (in Korean). Seoul Sinmun. 2008-09-05. http://www.seoul.co.kr/news/newsView.php?id=20080905024007&spage=15. Retrieved 2009-09-19.
^ “( ) ” (in Korean). Kookmin Ilbo. 2001-09-28. http://news.kukinews.com/article/view.asp?page=1&gCode=all&arcid=0918308453&code=14151100. Retrieved 2009-09-19.
See also
Wikibooks Cookbook has a recipe/module on
Red Bean Paste
Wikibooks Cookbook has a recipe/module on
Anko
Sweet bean paste
Azuki bean
Black bean paste
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The Sportsmanship of Cyber-warfare ...item 2.. Gauss, a new "cyber-espionage toolkit" (August 9, 2012 11:08 AM PDT) ...item 3.. New U.S. intelligence report raises urgency over Iran"s nuclear program (Aug.09, 2012)
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So far, Gauss has swiped data from the Bank of Beirut, EBLF, BlomBank, ByblosBank, FransaBank and Credit Libanais. Citibank and PayPal users are also targeted.
Why Gauss? The malware"s main module was named after German mathematician Johann Carl Friedrich Gauss. Other components are also named after well-known mathematicians.
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When it comes to protecting a nation, cries of “that’s unfair” or “un-sporting” should be relegated to the “whatever” bucket.
Any nation’s military, counter-intelligence organization, or other agency tasked with protecting its citizens would be catastrophically failing in their obligations if they’re not already actively pursuing new tools and tactics for the cyber-realm.
Granted, just like the military use of aircraft in WW1 opened a Pandora’s box of armed conflict that changed the world forever, ever since the first byte’s traversed the first network we’ve been building towards the state we’re in.
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The Sportsmanship of Cyber-warfare
Wednesday, June 27th, 2012
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As a bit of a history buff I can’t avoid a slight tingling of déjà vu every time I read some new story commenting upon the ethics, morality and legality of cyber-warfare/cyber-espionage/cyberwar/cyber-attack/cyber-whatever. All this rhetoric about Stuxnet, Flame, and other nation-state cyber-attack tools, combined with the parade of newly acknowledged cyber-warfare capabilities and units within the armed services of countries around the globe, brings to the fore so many parallels
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with the discussions about the (then) new-fangled use of flying-machines within the military in the run-up to WWI.
Call me a cynic if you will, but when the parallels in history are so evident, we’d be crazy to ignore them.
The media light that has been cast upon the (successful) deployment of cyber-weapons recently has many people in a tail-spin – reflecting incredulity and disbelief that such weapons exist, let alone have already been employed by military forces. Now, as people begin to understand that such tools and tactics have been fielded by nation-states for many years prior to these most recent public exposures, reactions run from calls for regulation through to global moratoriums on their use. Roll the clock back 100 years and you’ll have encountered pretty much the same reaction to the unsporting use of flying-machines as weapons of war.
That said, military minds have always sought new technologies to gain the upper-hand on and off the battlefield. Take for example Captain Bertram Dickenson’s statement to the 1911 Technical Sub-Committee for Imperial Defence (TSID) who were charged with considering the role of aeroplanes in future military operations:
“In case of a European war, between two countries, both sides would be equipped with large corps of aeroplanes, each trying to obtain information on the other… the efforts which each would exert in order to hinder or prevent the enemy from obtaining information… would lead to the inevitable result of a war in the air, for the supremacy of the air, by armed aeroplanes against each other. This fight for the supremacy of the air in future wars will be of the greatest importance…”
A century later, substitute “cyber-warriors” for aeroplanes and “Internet” for air, and you’d be hard-pressed to tell the difference from what you’re seeing in the news today.
Just as the prospect of a bomb falling from the hands of an aviator hanging out the cockpit of a zeppelin or biplane fundamentally changed the design of walled fortifications and led to the development of anti-aircraft weaponry, new approaches to securing the cyber-frontier are needed and underway. Then, as now, it wasn’t until civilians were alerted to (or encountered first-hand) the reality of the new machines of war, did an appreciation of these fundamental changes become apparent.
But there are a number of other parallels to WWI (and the birth of aerial warfare) and where cyber-warfare is today that I think are interesting too.
Take for example how the aviators of the day thought of themselves as being different and completely apart from the other war-fighters around them. The camaraderie of the pilots who, after spending their day trying to shoot-down their counterparts, were only too happy to have breakfast, and exchange stories over a few stiff drinks with the downed pilots of the other side is legendary. I’m not sure if it was mutual respect, or a sharing of a common heritage that others around them couldn’t understand, but the net result was that that first-breed of military aviator found more in common with their counterparts than with their own side.
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Today, I think you’ll likely encounter the equivalent social scene as introverted computer geeks who, by way of day-job, develop the tools that target and infiltrate foreign installations for their country, yet attend the same security conferences and reveal their latest evasion tactic or privilege escalation technique over a cold beer with one-another. Whether it’s because the skill-sets are so specialized, or that the path each cyber-warrior had to take in order to acquire those skills was so influential upon their world outlook, many of the people I’ve encountered that I would identify as being capable of truly conducting warfare within the cyber-realm share more in common with their counterparts than they do with those tasking them.
When it comes to protecting a nation, cries of “that’s unfair” or “un-sporting” should be relegated to the “whatever” bucket. Any nation’s military, counter-intelligence organization, or other agency tasked with protecting its citizens would be catastrophically failing in their obligations if they’re not already actively pursuing new tools and tactics for the cyber-realm. Granted, just like the military use of aircraft in WW1 opened a Pandora’s box of armed conflict that changed the world forever, ever since the first byte’s traversed the first network we’ve been building towards the state we’re in.
The fact that a small handful of clandestine, weaponized cyber-arms have materialized within the public realm doesn’t necessarily represent a newly opened Pandora’s box – instead it reflects merely one of the evils from a box that was opened at the time the Internet was born.
– Gunter Ollmann, VP Research
Tags: cyberwar, Flame, stuxnet
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Chinese Hackers and Cyber Realpolitik
Friday, December 16th, 2011
For many people the comments made by Michael Hayden, Former Director of the Central Intelligence Agency, at this week’s Black Hat Technical Security Conference in Abu Dhabi may have been unsettling as he commented upon the state of Chinese cyber espionage.
I appreciate the candor of his observations and the distinction he made between state-level motivations. In particular, his comment “We steal secrets, you bet. But we steal secrets that are essential for American security and safety. We don’t steal secrets for American commerce, for American profit. There are many other countries in the world that do not so self limit.”
Perhaps I grew up reading too many spy stories or watched one-too-many James Bond movies, but I’ve always considered one of the functions of government is to run clandestine operations and uncover threats to their citizens and their economic wellbeing. The fact that Cyber is a significant and fruitful espionage vector shouldn’t really be surprising. Granted, it’s not as visual as digging a 1476 foot long tunnel under Soviet Berlin during the Cold War (see The Berlin Tunnel Operation GOLD (U.S.) Operation STOPWATCH (U.K.)) or as explosive as the French infiltration and eventual destruction of the Greenpeace Rainbow Warrior in New Zealand, but in today’s electronic society cyber espionage is a necessary tool.
Personally, I think you’d struggle to find a country or government anywhere around the world that hasn’t invested resources in building out their cyber espionage capabilities in recent years. It’s a tool of modern statecraft and policing.
While the media tends to focus upon the term “cyber warfare” and its many faceted security and safety ramifications, I think that we often fail to divorce a governments need (or even expectation) to conduct espionage and what would logically be covered by the articles (and declaration) of war. Granted it all gets a bit fuzzy – just look at the history of the “Cold War”. Perhaps a more appropriate name for the current situation and tensions would be “Cyber Realpolitik“.
China is often depicted as the bogeyman – rightly or wrongly – when it comes to cyber espionage. We increasingly find ourselves drawn into a debate of whether attacks which are instigated or traced back to the country are state-sponsored, state-endorsed, socially acceptable, or merely the patriotic duty of appropriately skilled citizens. The fact of the matter though is that there’s a disproportionate volume of cyber-attacks and infiltration attempts coming from China, targeting North American and European commercial institutions. You may argue that this is an artifact of China’s population but, if that was the case, wouldn’t India feature more highly then? India is more populous and arguably has a better developed education system in the field of information technology and software development – and yet they are rarely seen on the totem pole of threat instigators.
Michael Hayden alludes that China (and other countries) is not opposed to using cyber espionage for commercial advancement and profit, and based upon past observations, I would tend to agree with that conclusion. That said though, I don’t think that any country is immune to the temptation. Given the hoopla of the recent U.S. congressional insider trading fiasco and French presidential corruption, I’m not sure that “self limit” approaches work in all cases.
Cyber Realpolitik is the world we find ourselves living in and cyber espionage is arguably the latest tool in a government’s clandestine toolkit. We could consume a lot of time debating the ethics and outcomes of modern espionage campaigns but, at the end of the day, it’s a facet of international politics and governmental needs that have existed for millennium. For those commercial entities being subjected to the cyber campaigns directed at them by foreign governments, I don’t believe this threat will be going away anytime in the foreseeable future. Perhaps the noise surrounding the attacks may disappear, but that may just reflect an increase in stealthiness.
– Gunter Ollmann, VP Research.
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With Gauss tool, cyberspying moves beyond Stuxnet, Flame
Kaspersky Lab finds Gauss, a spying malware that collects financial information and resembles Flame. Components are named after famous mathematicians.
by Larry Dignan ... August 9, 2012 11:08 AM PDT
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Gauss, a new "cyber-espionage toolkit," has emerged in the Middle East and is capable of stealing sensitive data such as browser passwords, online banking accounts, cookies, and system configurations, according to Kaspersky Lab. Gauss appears to have come from the same nation-state factories that produced Stuxnet.
According to Kaspersky, Gauss has unique characteristics relative to other malware. Kaspersky said it found Gauss following the discovery of Flame. The International Telecommunications Union has started an effort to identify emerging cyberthreats and mitigate them before they spread.
In a nutshell, Gauss launched around September 2011 and was discovered in June. Gauss, which resembles Flame, had its command and control infrastructure shut down in July, but the malware is dormant waiting for servers to become active. Kaspersky noted in an FAQ:
There is enough evidence that this is closely related to Flame and Stuxnet, which are nation-state sponsored attacks. We have evidence that Gauss was created by the same "factory" (or factories) that produced Stuxnet, Duqu and Flame.
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Among Gauss" key features:
...Gauss collects data on machines and sends it to attackers. This data includes network interface information, computer drive details and BIOS characteristics.
...The malware can infect USB thumb drives using the vulnerabilities found in Stuxnet and Flame.
...Gauss can disinfect drives under certain circumstances and then uses removable media to store collected data in a hidden file.
...The malware also installs a special font called Palida Narrow.
Since May 2012, Gauss has infected more than 2,500 machines, mostly in the U.S. Kaspersky said that the total number of Gauss victims is likely to be in the "tens of thousands." That number is lower than Stuxnet, but higher than Flame and Duqu attacks.
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So far, Gauss has swiped data from the Bank of Beirut, EBLF, BlomBank, ByblosBank, FransaBank and Credit Libanais. Citibank and PayPal users are also targeted.
Why Gauss? The malware"s main module was named after German mathematician Johann Carl Friedrich Gauss. Other components are also named after well-known mathematicians.
A few key slides from Kaspersky"s Gauss report:
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This story was first published as "Meet Gauss: The latest cyber-espionage tool" on ZDNet"s Between the Lines.
Topics:Cybercrime, Security, Vulnerabilities and attacks Tags:cyber-espionage, Kaspersky Lab, Gauss, malware
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Barak: New U.S. intelligence report raises urgency over Iran"s nuclear program
Defense Minister Ehud Barak confirms Haaretz"s report that Obama recently received an NIE report which shares Israel"s view on Iran"s progress toward nuclear capability; Israel, U.S. positions on Iran now closer, says Barak.
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U.S. Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta and Defense Minister Ehud Barak hold a joint news conference at an Iron Dome battery site in Ashkelon August 1, 2012.
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By Barak Ravid | Aug.09, 2012 | 1:03 PM |
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Defense Minister Ehud Barak confirmed on Thursday Haaretz"s report that President Barack Obama recently received a new National Intelligence Estimate report on the Iranian nuclear program, which shares Israel"s view that Iran has made significant progress toward military nuclear capability, and said that the report has raised the urgency of the issue.
Speaking on Israel Radio on Thursday morning, Barak said that there is a U.S. intelligence report "being passed around senior offices," and that, as far as Israel knows, this report has brought the U.S. position over Iran closer to the Israeli position, and made the issue more urgent.
For months there has been a basic agreement (between the U.S. and Israel) over what the Iranians are planning to do, and a deep understanding of what is stopping them, the defense minister said in the interview.
Barak also said that Israel will have to make a decision over Iran"s nuclear program. "All the options are still on the table, and when we say this, we mean it," he said.
"There is still no decision, we understand the gravity of the situation, we understand that we do not have all the time in the world to decide. We are facing tough decisions…we will listen to all assessments and comments, and when we have to make decisions, we will make them, and the decision will of course come from the government," he said.
Haaretz reported on Thursday that the National Intelligence Estimate report on Iran was supposed to have been submitted to Obama a few weeks ago, but it was revised to include new and alarming intelligence information about military components of Iran"s nuclear program. Haaretz has learned that the report"s conclusions are quite similar to those drawn by Israel"s intelligence community.
The NIE report contends that Iran has made surprising, notable progress in the research and development of key components of its military nuclear program.
The NIE reports are the most important assessments compiled by the U.S. intelligence community and are submitted to the president and other top governmental officials. This NIE report was compiled by an inter-departmental team headed by director of National Intelligence James Clapper. Its contents articulate the views of American intelligence agencies.
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Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center: P-40 Warhawk, SR-71 Blackbird, Naval Aircraft Factory N3N seaplane, Space Shuttle Enterprise
Image by Chris Devers
Quoting Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum | Curtiss P-40E Warhawk (Kittyhawk IA):
Whether known as the Warhawk, Tomahawk, or Kittyhawk, the Curtiss P-40 proved to be a successful, versatile fighter during the first half of World War II. The shark-mouthed Tomahawks that Gen. Claire Chennault"s "Flying Tigers" flew in China against the Japanese remain among the most popular airplanes of the war. P-40E pilot Lt. Boyd D. Wagner became the first American ace of World War II when he shot down six Japanese aircraft in the Philippines in mid-December 1941.
Curtiss-Wright built this airplane as Model 87-A3 and delivered it to Canada as a Kittyhawk I in 1941. It served until 1946 in No. 111 Squadron, Royal Canadian Air Force. U.S. Air Force personnel at Andrews Air Force Base restored it in 1975 to represent an aircraft of the 75th Fighter Squadron, 23rd Fighter Group, 14th Air Force.
Donated by the Exchange Club in Memory of Kellis Forbes.
Manufacturer:
Curtiss Aircraft Company
Date:
1939
Country of Origin:
United States of America
Dimensions:
Overall: 330 x 970cm, 2686kg, 1140cm (10ft 9 15/16in. x 31ft 9 7/8in., 5921.6lb., 37ft 4 13/16in.)
Materials:
All-metal, semi-monocoque
Physical Description:
Single engine, single seat, fighter aircraft.
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Details, quoting from Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum | Lockheed SR-71 Blackbird:
No reconnaissance aircraft in history has operated globally in more hostile airspace or with such complete impunity than the SR-71, the world"s fastest jet-propelled aircraft. The Blackbird"s performance and operational achievements placed it at the pinnacle of aviation technology developments during the Cold War.
This Blackbird accrued about 2,800 hours of flight time during 24 years of active service with the U.S. Air Force. On its last flight, March 6, 1990, Lt. Col. Ed Yielding and Lt. Col. Joseph Vida set a speed record by flying from Los Angeles to Washington, D.C., in 1 hour, 4 minutes, and 20 seconds, averaging 3,418 kilometers (2,124 miles) per hour. At the flight"s conclusion, they landed at Washington-Dulles International Airport and turned the airplane over to the Smithsonian.
Transferred from the United States Air Force.
Manufacturer:
Lockheed Aircraft Corporation
Designer:
Clarence L. "Kelly" Johnson
Date:
1964
Country of Origin:
United States of America
Dimensions:
Overall: 18ft 5 15/16in. x 55ft 7in. x 107ft 5in., 169998.5lb. (5.638m x 16.942m x 32.741m, 77110.8kg)
Other: 18ft 5 15/16in. x 107ft 5in. x 55ft 7in. (5.638m x 32.741m x 16.942m)
Materials:
Titanium
Physical Description:
Twin-engine, two-seat, supersonic strategic reconnaissance aircraft; airframe constructed largley of titanium and its alloys; vertical tail fins are constructed of a composite (laminated plastic-type material) to reduce radar cross-section; Pratt and Whitney J58 (JT11D-20B) turbojet engines feature large inlet shock cones.
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Quoting Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum | Naval Aircraft Factory N3N:
In 1934 the Naval Aircraft Factory in Philadelphia was tasked to manufacture a new primary trainer for the U.S. Navy. Following successful tests, this little biplane trainer was built in both land and seaplane versions. The Navy initially ordered 179 N3N-1 models, and the factory began producing more than 800 N3N-3 models in 1938. U.S. Navy primary flight training schools used N3Ns extensively throughout World War II. A few of the seaplane version were retained for primary training at the U.S. Naval Academy. In 1961 they became the last biplanes retired from U.S. military service.
This N3N-3 was transferred from Cherry Point to Annapolis in 1946, where it served as a seaplane trainer. It was restored and displayed at the Naval Academy Museum before being transferred here.
Transferred from the United States Navy
Manufacturer:
Naval Aircraft Factory
Date:
1941
Country of Origin:
United States of America
Dimensions:
Overall: 10ft 9 15/16in. x 25ft 7 1/16in. x 34ft 1 7/16in., 2090lb. (330 x 780 x 1040cm, 948kg)
Materials:
bolted steel-tube fuselage construction with removable side panels wings, also constructed internally of all metal, covered with fabric like the fuselage and tail.
Physical Description:
Bright yellow bi-plane, hand crank start. Cockpit instrumentation consists of an altimeter, tachometer, airspeed indicator, compass, turn and bank indicator, and a combination fuel and oil temperature and pressure gauge, floats.
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Details, quoting from Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum | Space Shuttle Enterprise:
Manufacturer:
Rockwell International Corporation
Country of Origin:
United States of America
Dimensions:
Overall: 57 ft. tall x 122 ft. long x 78 ft. wing span, 150,000 lb.
(1737.36 x 3718.57 x 2377.44cm, 68039.6kg)
Materials:
Aluminum airframe and body with some fiberglass features; payload bay doors are graphite epoxy composite; thermal tiles are simulated (polyurethane foam) except for test samples of actual tiles and thermal blankets.
The first Space Shuttle orbiter, "Enterprise," is a full-scale test vehicle used for flights in the atmosphere and tests on the ground; it is not equipped for spaceflight. Although the airframe and flight control elements are like those of the Shuttles flown in space, this vehicle has no propulsion system and only simulated thermal tiles because these features were not needed for atmospheric and ground tests. "Enterprise" was rolled out at Rockwell International"s assembly facility in Palmdale, California, in 1976. In 1977, it entered service for a nine-month-long approach-and-landing test flight program. Thereafter it was used for vibration tests and fit checks at NASA centers, and it also appeared in the 1983 Paris Air Show and the 1984 World"s Fair in New Orleans. In 1985, NASA transferred "Enterprise" to the Smithsonian Institution"s National Air and Space Museum.
Transferred from National Aeronautics and Space Administration
