From: Gene Hall
Date: 09/16/12 19:07:52
Subject: Karl
Ullman
Old Delta pilots – and lots of non
Delta pilots – lost a great friend when Karl Ullman took his last flight west
last week. During my 36 years of driving widgets, I only had 4 docs give me FAA
physicals. Karl was one of those, and I always looked forward to going to his
office. I have long been interested in the history of the Third Reich, and how
Hitler was able to take complete control. Karl was a living history of that
period, and he always seemed to have time to sit in his office and talk. It was
well known that he had been buying gold since President Nixon deregulated it in
1971. The price had been pegged at $35 per ounce by President Roosevelt. Karl
started buying it shortly after deregulation, and sold it when it hit $800 in
1980. It was only at $800 for a nanosecond before it started back down, and I
asked Karl how he knew it was the right time to sell. His response was a first
hand report on the sheer terror of the inflation of pre Third Reich Germany.
Karl gave me
a short version of his life history. He was a school boy, and inflation was so
bad that he could remember his father rushing home with a sack full of marks, and
assigning family members to rush to food markets, and buy food before prices
doubled. He said his family was desperate, but there was a family living next
door to them who had invested in silver and gold coins before the hyper
inflation of the early 1920’s. That family was living the same way they always
had lived. Then the war started. Karl was either in medical school, or about to
be, and he had a choice of being drafted into the infantry or the Luftwaffe. He
chose the Luftwaffe, and flight training. He was flying a ME-109 (fighter) when
he was shot down over the eastern front by the Russians. I don’t remember how
long he was in the Russian concentration camp, but I do remember that he said
he was not mistreated there, other than not having enough food.
As I recall,
he didn’t get back home until several months after the war ended. The same
family still lived next door to his family; they still had coins; they were
also trading in cigarettes, and they were living like “there had been no war”.
Meanwhile, the Ullman family lived out of an American officer’s club garbage
dump for about six months after he returned home.
Karl said
that when he came to the US, he saw the Marshall Plan, other foreign aid,
welfare, etc. He thought it was not sustainable, and he started buying German
Marks. When gold was deregulated, he started buying gold, but it was by pure
accident, and not any special knowledge that he sold at a high that would not
be reached again for several years.
So long old
friend, I hope we meet again.
This website
will show you the average yearly price of gold from 1971-2011. http://www.cbc.ca/news/interactives/gold-chart-prices/
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From: George Chaudoin
Date: 9/11/2012 2:49:18 PM
Subject:
...news off the DeltaNet.....scam emails aimed at getting passwords.....
Thanks to Carol Faulkner for
this information.
Dick
...news off the DeltaNet.....scam emails aimed at getting passwords.....
Employees warned to watch for new email phishing scam
September 10, 2012
Delta employees have been targets of recent email scams aimed at getting passwords and IDs. The latest messages are showing up in employees’ corporate email accounts as fraudulent notices regarding the Delta Extranet, and Delta’s Information Security team urges employees to be aware of this latest threat.
The latest scam – also called phishing, as scammers use emails to bait employees to disclose personal information – has a subject line containing a variation of “Delta Extranet - You have (1) new message”. Employees can see a sample of one of these notes in the links below.
These simple messages look convincing, with a spoofed ‘From’ address making it appear they are from a legitimate Delta account.
The links in the messages lead to web pages that are convincing copies of legitimate Delta sites. One looks like the Delta Extranet login site, and the other looks like the login site for Delta web email access. Both of these sites try to trick employees into entering their Delta user ID and password, which is sent to the cyber criminals.
Employees should delete these messages immediately. No further action is needed for those who delete a message without clicking any of the links.
If an employee has clicked any of the links in one of these messages, they need to change their password immediately by using the online reset tool on the DeltaNet Help page. Employees having trouble can contact the Help Desk by chat on that page, or by phone at: 404-714-4357 (HELP) to get assistance with changing login passwords.
Always remember, no one from Delta IT or Security will ever request an employee’s user ID or password via email. Anyone who legitimately needs to help an employee with logging in can get the information; employees should never give anyone their password and ID. Employees may be asked to answer security questions by the Help Desk, but that is when an employee contacts them first. No one should contact employees and ask for passwords or IDs.
“All Delta employees share responsibility for protecting information security on our network,” said Renee Lopez-Pineda, general manager-Information Technology. “We’re reminding employees that if an email doesn’t look legitimate or if they aren’t expecting one from a specific business with links or attachments, then just delete it.”
Delta’s Information Security team has been closely monitoring these latest attacks and working directly with the affected employees.
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No virus found in this message.
Checked by AVG - www.avg.com
Version: 2012.0.2221 / Virus Database: 2437/5262 - Release Date: 09/11/12
Dick
...news off the DeltaNet.....scam emails aimed at getting passwords.....
Employees warned to watch for new email phishing scam
September 10, 2012
Delta employees have been targets of recent email scams aimed at getting passwords and IDs. The latest messages are showing up in employees’ corporate email accounts as fraudulent notices regarding the Delta Extranet, and Delta’s Information Security team urges employees to be aware of this latest threat.
The latest scam – also called phishing, as scammers use emails to bait employees to disclose personal information – has a subject line containing a variation of “Delta Extranet - You have (1) new message”. Employees can see a sample of one of these notes in the links below.
These simple messages look convincing, with a spoofed ‘From’ address making it appear they are from a legitimate Delta account.
The links in the messages lead to web pages that are convincing copies of legitimate Delta sites. One looks like the Delta Extranet login site, and the other looks like the login site for Delta web email access. Both of these sites try to trick employees into entering their Delta user ID and password, which is sent to the cyber criminals.
Employees should delete these messages immediately. No further action is needed for those who delete a message without clicking any of the links.
If an employee has clicked any of the links in one of these messages, they need to change their password immediately by using the online reset tool on the DeltaNet Help page. Employees having trouble can contact the Help Desk by chat on that page, or by phone at: 404-714-4357 (HELP) to get assistance with changing login passwords.
Always remember, no one from Delta IT or Security will ever request an employee’s user ID or password via email. Anyone who legitimately needs to help an employee with logging in can get the information; employees should never give anyone their password and ID. Employees may be asked to answer security questions by the Help Desk, but that is when an employee contacts them first. No one should contact employees and ask for passwords or IDs.
“All Delta employees share responsibility for protecting information security on our network,” said Renee Lopez-Pineda, general manager-Information Technology. “We’re reminding employees that if an email doesn’t look legitimate or if they aren’t expecting one from a specific business with links or attachments, then just delete it.”
Delta’s Information Security team has been closely monitoring these latest attacks and working directly with the affected employees.
================================================================
No virus found in this message.
Checked by AVG - www.avg.com
Version: 2012.0.2221 / Virus Database: 2437/5262 - Release Date: 09/11/12
On The Green Side
George
George
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