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Although the FOMC statement did not disappoint, the USD sold off momentarily after the monetary policy announcement. As a result USD/JPY dropped 100 pips while EURUSD was on a good run hitting a 2 year high. GBP/USD broker the 1.31 price level while AUD/USD hit 80 cents and NZD/USD broke above 0.7500.The FMOC statement was as per investor’s expectations.

Interest rates remained unchanged and inflation declined to below 2%.

This was a busy week for U.S. economy drivers with a lot of attention trained on the last 3 days of the week. On Wednesday, Federal Reserve finally relayed their July rate decision but did the markets love it? Well, it is obvious from the dollar selloff the markets did not like the report. However, data released on Thursday and Friday augured well with the greenback.

The events saw an extension of the greenbacks weakness as the currency touched the 10% marker. After starting the New Year on a high, the bearish USD has lost more than 10% to the low set after the FOMC.

The biggest market mover this week was the Federal Reserve’s report, contrary to what we expected on our weekly forex outlook. We expected politics to be the main drivers but it appears we were mistaken.

The Dollar showed signs of strength in the morning session after the rate decision. The rally backed on good than expected U.S. Durable Goods numbers. The tune however changed on Friday after the GDP release failed to meet expectations. The lackluster GDP data saw USD slide near the new low.

Next week (31st Jul to 4th Aug),has a number of data releases which could induce some volatility on the Dollar. Two data releases which are more likely to be main price drivers include PCE year-over-year slated on Tuesday morning and Non-Farm Payrolls for July on Friday morning.

The Personal Consumption Expenditure Price Index (PCE) is a key inflation metric. Depending on the nature of the data, it can influence price movements either way. A good than expected PCE will be a positive to the Dollar.

On the other hand, NFP is an employment primary driver. Another important economic event for the week is the Loretta Mester and John Williams Fed speeches on Wednesday. Comments from either Williams or Mester can spark volatility in the Dollar.

We have set our forecast for the dollar to neutral for the week. However, we speculate a mid-week rally.

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Yes and no.

First, a little on the concept of invisible illnesses. These are the sorts of afflictions that are not apparent on first looking at a person – conditions such as fibromyalgia, chronic fatigue syndrome, celiac and Crohn’s diseases, diabetes, epilepsy, lupus, Lyme disease, and many others. says, “Many people living with a hidden physical disability or mental challenge are still able to be active in their hobbies, work and be active in sports. On the other hand, some struggle just to get through their day at work and some cannot work at all.”

Most mental disorders are invisible illnesses by that definition. There isn’t a sign around our necks that proclaims “Bipolar,” “Social Anxiety Disorder,” “PTSD,” “Depression,” or even “Schizophrenia.”  The word “Crazy” isn’t tattooed on our foreheads. Our mere appearance doesn’t give away our “secret.”

We have a lot of the same problems that people with other invisible illnesses have. Spoon theory, for example. For bipolar people, simply taking a shower requires so many spoons that we seldom go out. (I count myself among that number.) People who don’t know or understand Spoon Theory often don’t understand why we don’t accept their invitations or cancel at the last minute, or simply don’t show up. You lose a fair number of friends that way.

On the other hand, a mental disorder is not always invisible. People can see us burst into tears for no apparent reason, or go into the bathroom at a party and never come out. They can see our shaking hands, confused looks, and depressed expressions. They can hear our awkward attempts to socialize “appropriately.” They may not know what is wrong, but they can often tell something is.

When we realize this is happening, there are various strategies we try. We can leave the situation – entirely or partially (my go-to is to leave the room on the pretext of needing to make a cup of tea). We can try to brush it off or laugh it off (“Sorry. My nerves are bad today” or “I don’t know why I said that. Must be a brain-fart”). We can try the half-truth/half-joke (“Oops. Guess my meds just haven’t kicked in yet”). We can ignore whatever is happening and hope everyone else does too.

Or we can own it. “I have social anxiety disorder and need to be in a less crowded space than the mall.” “I won’t be able to go to the carnival with you because my PTSD is triggered by loud noises.” “I may come to your party if my bipolar disorder will let me.”

We can also address the subject when there isn’t a situation looming. During a phone conversation or an IM chat, we can let the other person know that we have a mental disorder – an invisible illness. It doesn’t have to be dramatic and dire. Casually may be the best way to handle it. “I know you’re wondering why I didn’t go to the movies with you last week.” “When I saw my doctor yesterday we talked about my physical health and my mental health too.” “You know that character on that show that has PTSD? I have that too, but it’s not exactly like on the show.”

If that sounds risky, you’re right. It can be. There will be people who still don’t get it. People who “don’t believe in” mental illness. People who try to brush it off. People who offer the latest vitamins or super foods or Eastern philosophy as the cure-all.

But you’ll also find people who say, “Oh, my brother-in-law has that too” or “Okay. But I’m still your friend” or “What can I do to help?”

So those are the choices, basically.

Take a chance. Or stay invisible.

Neither choice is right or wrong for everyone. Mental illness is very personal.

You decide.

Comments on: "Is Bipolar Disorder an “Invisible Illness”?" (7)

  1. I’m fortunate to live in Los Angeles, where I jokingly say that people think there’s something wrong with you if you don’t have a therapist. Coming out as bipolar was easy for me. I grew up in the South and lived some in the Midwest and I don’t think coming out would have been as smooth.

    As you said, everyone has to make that choice on their own. I’m just happy it worked for me.

  2. I do share that I’m bipolar, whether the situation calls for it or not. I want people to understand when I’m behaving erratically or cry for not reason. But I always find the reaction I get so awkward. Such is life though as someone with a mental illness.

    • I’ve gotten the awkward reactions too – fixed smile, back away slowly, but usually not from my close friends. I’m glad you haven’t let that stop you from being open.

  3. Friends and family know I have bipolar. So do quite a number of people in my church. I have been fortunate that 99.9% of people have totally accepted me and the disorder. Some even ask questions so they can understand better what I experience. The very few who reject bipolar as an illness still accept me as a person so I am very fortunate. I share with those who need to know and those who are hurting emotionally or mentally when I feel it is appropriate and helpful to them to know they are not alone–I can relate to their pain and encourage them. Good post.

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  4. Heather Hooper said:

    I share about my depression and anxiety a lot, including on FB, much to the embarrassment of my Mum. When I started a PhD in the UK in 2006, I casually mentioned the problems I was having with finding a therapist, hoping that someone could give me a lead on a good therapist. Awkward silence. I said something like, “It’s perfectly normal – you’d be surprised how many people use a therapist and/or meds to keep themselves functional. It’s just like managing any other illness.” More awkward silence.

    I mentioned it a couple more times over the next six months (only when it was germane to the conversation!), and each time the awkward silence returned. However, over the next 9 months, 3 other students came to me and asked how they would go about getting help. My reputation as the crazy student was totally worth it.

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Juggling Family Chaos While Mom’s Overseas

On a bright, but chilly January morning, Senior Master Sgt. Steve Hill was settling in to his workday at Davis-Monthan Air Force Base. He had dropped off his son, Joshua, 15, at University High School, and his daughter, Adrianna, 8, at the elementary school on base. He was ready to focus on the day ahead when he was summoned to a packed auditorium of airmen.

When 2018 Father of the Year Master Sgt. Timothy Ledford stepped to the podium and announced that Hill had been named one of the Father’s Day Council Tucson’s 2019 Father of the Year honorees, Hill was stunned into silence.

The room erupted into cheers when the award was announced. Ledford said, “He is responsible for the morale and welfare of the troops and, as a single father, he’s taking care on two fronts.”

After he had a chance to catch his breath, Hill said, “This is such an honor and a surprise. It’s been tough with my wife gone for 15 months. You don’t do fatherhood for awards – but this is really great. It’s such an honor.”

Master Sgt. Bianca Hill, Hill’s wife, is also an airman and for the past 15 months she’s been assigned to the embassy in Bogota, Columbia. While she’s been able to come back to Tucson a few times, Hill has essentially been a single father in her absence. Hill said that, in the past, it was his wife who maintained the home front while he was deployed – once to Africa and again to Afghanistan.

“This is the hardest thing I’ve ever done in my life,” Hill said of parenting his kids without his wife. Thankfully, his supervisor is flexible, which is critical given that Hill is on call 24/7, 365 days a year. “I’m in charge of the health, morale, welfare and discipline of close to 400 enlisted personnel,” Hill said.

Hill and his wife met in Tucson in 2006 when they were stationed at Davis-Monthan. Both previously had been married and each had a son. Soon the family – the couple and son Joshua – was transferred to Colorado Springs, where daughter Adrianna was born. They lived in Colorado Springs for six years before being transferred back to Tucson. In June, the family will move once again – this time to Ogden, Utah. Hill’s stepson, Christian, is 16 and currently lives in Italy with his dad.

“I’m a conductor of organized chaos,” Hill said. “They have basketball, karate and softball. They have something going on Monday through Saturday.”

Of his parenting style, Hill said, “I’m stern in a way, but my kids are free to experience life.”

That attitude has made his kids very resilient and open to new experiences, he said. As so-called “military brats,” his kids are used to moving, discovering communities and making new friends. It’s something they have in common with Hill, who, because of his dad’s retail career, moved 10 times by the time he was 10 years old.

As if Hill’s life wasn’t hectic enough, he’s also attending graduate school. To him, it’s not a big deal. “I get up at 4 a.m. just to work out, before the crazy starts,” he said. “At night, we all sit down and do our homework together.”

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Love Again?

I recently made a vow that I did not want to date again until I accomplished all of my personal goals. I truly feel like every time I come close to accomplishing a huge goal, some gorgeous man comes into my life and gets me a little off track. Now, I’m not saying everything falls apart, but I do notice that I find myself losing more of “me” to become “we”. I think that is the typical life of a “hopeless romantic”!

Let’s be clear, I am not anti-love or expressing that I do not want to be in love. Nor am I speaking against having a fulfilling relationship, but time is precious and not recycle-able. I have no time to waste. This year is already coming to a close and I still feel like I have not come close to completing everything I want to. Ironically, when you don’t want to be in a relationship here comes Mr. Handsome craving your time and attention. So you give in because he is tall, beautiful and everything you desire in a man, LOL.

So what’s next and how do you balance it all?

I had been dating a guy for several months. He seemed to be everything I desired. This man is well educated, has one daughter that he takes very good care of,  he is 4 yrs older than me, handsome and we both work in finance. Anyway, we had great chemistry, family values and spent a lot of time together. Then the minor conflicts surfaced. Instead of working through them, I decided to walk away. I did not want to waste time putting effort into a situation that could possibly be a waste of time.

I looked at it from a narrow perspective, that is: first sign of trouble, run!  At first I had mixed emotions. I began to wonder if this was Mr. Right that I was walking away from, and if I had made a mistake. Maybe Mr. Right had a few things I did not agree with, but maybe we could work out the kinks and resolve the minor disagreements.  However, I got exhausted just thinking about the effort it takes to invest in a relationship. Truth be told, I had not even fully invested enough in me. I decided that I wanted to spend at least a year fully investing in myself to reach my full potential.

My only advice to moms who are tying to balance life and a life partner is to find someone who is willing to support your vision. The person who is for you will  give you the space that you need to grow into your greatness. It is ok though to make a decision to focus on yourself before you put a huge focus on someone else.

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  1. You know Tahnee Danny Gokey has a song called “Tell Your Heart Start Beating Again”, he said he lost his lovely wife and this song really meant a lot to him, because God brought him through that hard time. I dedicate this song to you to let you know it’s okay to love again. Just make sure you have a God fearing man and he respects your babies and you. You are too young and beautiful to not believe that you deserve love. There is a good man out there for you. He may be in another city who knows? Your day will come again. You are such a sweet wonderful beautiful woman, l good friend, wonderful daughter, excellent mother and hard worker and there is a man who has those qualities and it looking for you!!!! Don’t give up,

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North Carolina race heats up

The biggest races in the US senate contest may be in North Carolina.

The most expensive election campaign in the history of North Carolina elections has been a huge contention among some voters.

North Carolina Sen. Kay Hagan is sitting on the most expensive hot seat in Senate history.

Spending in her Senate race against Republican State House Speaker Thom Tillis topped $100 million, according to the Sunlight Foundation—$10 million more than the second most expensive Senate contest this year in Colorado, and roughly $30 million more than the priciest Congressional race in history before 2014.

Hagan and Tillis have been running neck-and-neck for months. In the latest CNN/ORC poll Friday, Hagan’s lead was within the margin of error, 48 to 46 percent. But the closeness of the race doesn’t fully explain the costs. Across the map, endangered Democrats and Republican hopefuls are locked in competitive contests within the margin of error.

The truth may be something that the media may be finding hard to swallow and in fact with all the media spin voters may be feeling a little beligered with all the switch and bait ads as well as the outrageous contention that seems to be a big part of this race.

With Millions and millions of dollars being poured into this election you have to wonder what the voters will do, many expect to see a different result that what the media is churning out.

That might make for a great Crow Eating News cycle in the coming days but the truth is that the media hardly ever admit when they are wrong.   In the words of Stephen King ” they have forgotten the faces of their fathers”  The media appear to be so out of touch with the people that they cannot identify with the mood of this nation and that is why it is more important than ever to get out and vote.

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#internet #freedom

Ever just thought about what freedom is?

I mean really consider, right now at this moment in time, what you are free to do.

You could choose to go to a movie, buy popcorn and a coke and spend two hours watching a giant silver screen.

You could choose to watch that same movie at home…

You could go rock climbing or just spend time in your back yard cooking food and having fun with family or friends.

 You could go on a cruise to Alaska, You might decide to go to a NASCAR race or travel to a bed and breakfast and spend time with your most intimate friends.

There is no end to what you might do if you wanted to do that.

But what if suddenly, just to access the internet you had to pay a special Tax?

What if there were a website that you wanted to visit and instead of being able to visit that website all you could get was a blank white image stating that “were sorry this webpage is not currently available” here are several other webpages that are almost like the one you wanted to visit but because we think that what you wanted to view might offend someone, in the world.

We know whats best for you and another thing is this, you no longer control the freedoms for which your fathers fought.

You gave that away…

You allowed a few dull minded people to give away your freedoms and now you have no say in what you may access on the internet, its for your own good after all and after four or five years of only being able to see one perspective on the internet you will not remember your previous freedoms, Trust Us, you wont even miss it.

But you will miss it and the reason that you will miss it is a simple one.

When you perform a search on the internet only those websites that meet strict standards of publication will show up, you will not find small mom and pop business in the search results and so you will not go to those places to shop.

Only certain websites will be able to publish and sell online.

This seems like a science fiction movie right?

Sure it does, but it is about to become a reality, unless, We the People stand up and tell the White House, You will not take away our freedom of use of the #internet #freedom.

Does all this sound like the movie 1984?

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Medicare Advantage Cuts?

What are you telling me that Medicare Advantage Plans which were introduced in 2004 or perhaps earlier are being CUT up and bended, folded and mutilated.

Actually this is true but what is even more interesting is that back in 2010 insurance companies quietly began to Gut the Medicare Advantage plans…

So while a lot of news organizations may be blaming Obama care, which does not actually exist, because there is no such thing as Obama Care, its really the Affordable Care Act.

check this out.

The Continuing Cuts To Medicare Advantage Are Due To ObamaCare

The Federal Government Has Consistently Cut Medicare Advantage Payment Rates As A Result Of ObamaCare. “The U.S. government has been cutting payment rates for Medicare Advantage as part of an overall reduction in healthcare spending required under the law and as it seeks to bring the program fees closer to the ones it pays through the Medicare fee-for-service program.” (Caroline Humer, “U.S. Health Insurers Brace For New Steep Medicare Cuts,”
Reuters, 2/20/14)

So, really is it Obama Care or is it the Health Insurance companies themselves.

That is something that you should carefully consider.

We know that back in 2006 the Humana Care Gold Plan had a $100 copay for most surgeries, now its 20 percent, So, in reality who is responsible for all these problems.

The Insurance Industry…

Greed, the classic human evil, its always about the money, of course the affordable care act is a bad law, it was passed by tricks smoke and mirrors, (harry reid)

But we still need insurance reform, because our health care is really a good system at least for the most part, the thing is when can we find a way to fix this mess.

That is the question you should be asking yourself when you vote in 2014.

In 2009, As ObamaCare Was Being Debated In The Senate, Republicans Offered An Amendment To Protect Medicare Advantage From Cuts. “Senator Orrin G. Hatch, Republican of Utah, has proposed an amendment to block the cuts, which would reduce spending on Medicare Advantage plans by about $120 billion over 10 years.” (David M. Herszenhorn, “‘Medicare Advantage’ at Issue in Senate,” The New York Times, 12/4/09)

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Perhaps you have heard some people talk about how were a democracy, but that is not the truth at all.

Thomas Jefferson “A democracy is nothing more than mob rule, where 51% of the people may take away the rights of the other 49%” James Madison “Democracy was the right of the people to choose their own tyrant”

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Constitutional Freedom of the press

What is happening in Washington.

Can congress do anything at all?

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Fair Elections

Can there be a fair election when the media takes part in the election process?

I find that there are some serious issues in how the media covers election candidate.

Should something be done to prevent the media from giving free coverage and free PR to certain Candidates while other candidates have to pay for such coverage?

That is just one aspect of how media bias might create an unfair election process.

The democratic process is one that America spreads, it is our answer to most problems we encounter, but have we become hypocrites in allowing the media to become so callus and bias in their coverage that they begin to subvert the truth by allowing lies to become thought of as truth.

When you see on TV producers that have teleprompters and bobble heads that have to read garbage that producers trot out like it is some kind of truth when in fact it is nothing but lies and steaming piles of trash.  It used to be that people were not very educated, back in the 1950s the number of people who could read was much lower than it is now, and the number of people who have internet access and get their new online has increased at a very large margin.

So, the real question here is this, why have we allowed the media to attempt control what we see and what we hear?

Because for the most part people are just not that stupid, yet we have the media that continues to try to influence what happens and why certain candidates get favorable coverage?

In a world where candidates have to report every dime they raise in campaign contributions, should it not also be the policy of the law to report all the “free” publicity, they receive as income?

Should congress begin to regulate the media?

I am sure the media would be against this and it is a real problem, because where do you stop, what happens when you have congress deciding what is free speech and what is not, then you have even more problems.

Still we need some serious control over what is becoming something that could cause the election process to become a joke.  Imagine what might happen if everyone in the world began to understand that the media in the US was allegedly corrupt?

What would be the consequence?

The answer may not be an easy one but it is a problem that we must find an answer to.

 If the media has stopped reporting on the news, and has now joined in the electoral process as no longer a reporting agency but a participant, then we must find a way to stop them from taking over the process.

We need to restore the faith that the public used to have in the media…

People used to depend on the news for what we knew for what we understood, for our future…
Now it has become something less, something different, something that is not what we want.

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Shut down Washington

Is it time to Shut them down and Vote them out of office?

This is the time to figure out what the deal is…

Time to figure out who is telling the truth and who is a liar…

If this is not the hope and change you voted for it is time to vote them all out of office.

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So wait this is not the first time this has happened, but do we not know our own history?

Or is it due to faulty reporting by so called fair and balanced reporters?

So what is up with the lack of coverage on this topic?

Why is the Media not covering this news story, is it not news that we have faced government shut down before and magically the world did not end? Why is the media not covering this news story and what does that say about a news company that will not cover the news are they really a news company or are they an entertainment company instead.

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Is this the end?

Will we survive a Government shut down, some say yes, others say no, but if history has anything to say about it, we know this has happened before, so what is up with all the fear mongering, and who is really at the bottom of all the drama.

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Change you can believe in

Crazy yet allegedly it is true, so why and more importantly why would you want to do this.

Billions in Wasted money…

Millions of jobs lost forever.

Ban on Oil Drilling equals price of gas going up and up and up.

This is the change you voted for or is this something else?

In 2008 everyone had hope for a better future for America.

Now its 2 years later, how do you feel about how things have gone?

Are you better off now?


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A commonsense step to help the individual health insurance market

July 27, 2020 stgblase

By Brian Blase

A little-known program continues to cause problems in the individual and small group health insurance markets. The program involves shared risk payments among insurers, and it must be reformed to expand choices and lower premiums.

Under the Affordable Care Act (ACA), health insurers are required to offer coverage to every applicant, regardless of their underlying health conditions, and they must charge healthy applicants the same premiums as those who are sicker. By prohibiting rate variation, the ACA created an incentive for healthy people to under insure since they are charged higher premiums than their expected use of medical care, and sick people to over insure since they are charged lower premiums than their expected use of care. By itself, this means insurers make profits on the healthy and lose money on the sick.

In an attempt to prevent insurers from designing coverage to attract only the healthy, the ACA’s architects included a risk-adjustment program. The program has had the unintended consequence of driving premiums higher and forcing some insurers out of the markets. The Trump administration should reform it.

Risk adjustment transfers money from insurers with healthier enrollees to insurers with less healthy enrollees through a complex calculation. Under ideal circumstances, risk adjustment transfers would equalize the risks that plans face for insuring enrollees, leaving the plans indifferent to enrollees’ underlying health conditions and plan selection.

But the risk adjustment program is failing because its formula is not accurately measuring enrollee risk and because the program transfers too much money among insurers. Many insurers lose money on healthy enrollees and make money on sicker enrollees. Risk adjustment thus incentivizes insurers to enroll people with certain medical conditions so they can reap the large risk-adjustment payments on their behalf and avoid the healthy for whom they must pay large risk adjustment charges.

Because the risk adjustment program is creating less-attractive products for healthy enrollees, it is further weakening the entire ACA program since these are the very people who must enroll for the ACA’s overall regulatory scheme to work. Overall, individual market enrollment is more than 60 percent below expectations, as those who expect to incur larger medical costs disproportionately buy coverage while those who expect to use fewer services drop out of the market. The percentage of individual market enrollees with underlying health conditions has risen by 18 percent since 2016. Adverse selection has been mitigated to some extent by extremely large federal subsidies that have induced some relatively healthy people to purchase coverage. But that means taxpayers are paying more to repair the damage of a flawed program.

The ACA also failed to create more competition as the number of insurers offering coverage is substantially below pre-ACA levels. The ACA created co-ops with federal grants, for example, but they quickly collapsed and left many people without coverage, in significant part because of the large, unexpected risk-adjustment transfer payments the co-ops faced.

While some progress has been made to improve the program’s formula, risk adjustment is still weakening the markets as too much money continues to be transferred. Many smaller and more regionally based insurers subject to large and unpredictable risk adjustment transfers have decided to sit on the sidelines or raise premiums. For one-in-five insurers, at least 10 percent of individual market premiums charged was to recoup an expected risk adjustment payment in 2020. For example, Oscar Health filed a 2021 small group premium in New York of more than $10,000 with more than $4,000 coming from expected risk adjustment charges.

Risk adjustment has proven to benefit the largest and most established insurers in the market, particularly Blue Cross Blue Shield plans. From 2017 through 2019, Blues plans received more than $9 billion through risk adjustment transfers from other insurers in the market.

Democrats and Republicans disagree on many health policy issues. But both parties want the individual and small group health insurance markets to be successful. While other reforms are needed to repair them, fixing the ACA’s risk-adjustment process represents a positive and commonsense step and one the Center for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) can undertake reforms through the normal regulatory process.

Most importantly, CMS must reduce the amount of money transferred through the program and recalibrate the formula values so insurers are not discouraged from enrolling the young and healthy people needed for the markets to work best. CMS should also release more and better data so health plans can more accurately model how risk adjustment will affect them. Finally, CMS needs to commit to improved oversight to ensure that insurers are not inappropriately gaming the formula.

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Daniel Lopatin has worked on a Safdie Brothers film before - indeed, his music for 2017’s Good Time was widely heralded as one of that year’s best movie scores. As such, it makes sense that Lopatin (better-known as Oneohtrix Point Never) was brought on board by the pair once again to create the soundtrack to their new flick Uncut Gems. Now Warp have issued a standalone edition of the Uncut Gems OST.

Lopatin’s music for Uncut Gems invokes the same balance of electronic prettiness and harsh, abrasive noise that he did for Good Time. At their lushest, some of these tracks read like an updated version of the classic scoring work of Vangelis, Wendy Carlos and Angelo Badalamenti. There is an inviting dreaminess to much of Uncut Gems that comes off like a more maximalist rendering of Badalamenti’s Lynchian aesthetic - although a track such as ‘Back To Roslyn’, with its nocturnal keyboards and ethereal saxophone, is more naked with this influence.

When the noisy tracks come in here they enter with a sense of dread at their core. ‘The Fountain’, for instance, whistles and screeches in a manner that sounds like a harsh take on a Johnny Jewel composition. Elsewhere ‘School Play’ brings the noise more slyly, its breathless bleep-bloop motif tripping over itself to eventually create an unsettling soundscape.

Uncut Gems is another impressive sojourn into the world of film scoring from Daniel Lopatin (Oneohtrix Point Never).

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This fall, BlockchainWeekend NYC brings together New York City’s tech ecosystem by hosting a series of blockchain and tech events taking place across all five boroughs. With New York City at the forefront of the global tech community, it’s no surprise that this weekend event garnered so much media attention. In sharing this exciting initiative, BlockchainWeekend NYC partnered up with some of the biggest media outlets in crypto, blockchain and tech.

“We have been covering the expanding tech space in NYC for the last 5 years and we have seen exponential growth of the blockchain community over the last 3 years. We are glad to be a part of BlockchainWeekend NYC coverage, as this event unifies a decentralized nature of events with a blockchain global vision. The Silicon team will be on the ground covering all the latest happenings, projects and companies that are rising from New York blockchain community. We are excited to be a part of this historic initiative!”  – Young Woo Shin.  Editor, Silicon NYC – Tech Beat of NY

Founded in 2014, Coinspeaker quickly grew into one of the most influential news source written for everyone dealing with FinTech, Blockchain and Cryptocurrencies. Coinspeaker’s community of over 450,000 unique visitors per month is comprised of venture capitalists, start-up CEOs, merchants and  investors. CoinSpeaker’s coverage covers all aspects of the bitcoin and altcoin markets by “featuring a mix of regular Tech Wraps, daily and weekly Market Updates, expert interviews and much more, always delivering the core story in a simple and to-the-point factual style.”

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A custom ore block Raspberry Pi server case #Minecraft #PiDay #RaspberryPi @reddit @Raspberry_Pi

The Minecraft subreddit features a Raspberry Pi case made to look like a Minecraft ore block.

Some basics about this build:

It’s a Raspberry Pi 4 Model B 4gig mounted into the boards from an Argon One M.2 case with a 128gig Samsung Evo 960 M.2 drive. I am running Raspberry Pi OS Lite with a Paper MC SMP server running on that. I followed this guide: https://jamesachambers.com/raspberry-pi-minecraft-server-script-with-startup-service/

I did this as a winter holiday break project. The server itself has been running since around February and has kind of kept me sane this year. I designed the whole thing in CAD myself over a few days with some prototyping of the board mounts. The outer case is laser cut plywood. There is an inner layer of laser cut acrylic sheets to act as light diffusers and hide the inside, the rear panel is the same, just without any scuffing on it. The actual board mounts and bottom of the case are 3D printed. The outer layer and rear panel could be 3D printed. The lighting is a cheap RGB LED set from Five Below.

There are heatsinks on the SOC, RAM, and USB controller chips with an internal fan blowing onto those and the rear exhaust fan. In the testing I have done I haven’t seen temps over 60°C, without an overclock.

Here are some additional pictures of the build process and internals: https://imgur.com/gallery/Ry6uRzl

I have posted the files to Gumroad with a brief build guide and BOM: https://gum.co/RPIORE

I think the Raspberry Pi runs the server pretty admirably, especially considering the price. I haven’t really stress tested it much with large numbers of users and lots and lots of redstone or anything like that. The biggest issue is flying into chunks that haven’t been generated yet and logging in or changing dimensions takes about a minute.

See the post on Reddit

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  1. Reminds me of a project I did a few years back for the kids. It had an RGB Led inside to set the colour of the cube to indicate events in the server.

    Sorry Im not a profetinal youtuber 🙂

  2. Reminds me of a project I did a few years back for the kids. It had an RGB Led inside to set the colour of the cube to indicate events in the server.

    Sorry Im not a profetinal youtuber 🙂

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Apple to Stop Providing Unit Sales Data for iPhone, iPad and Mac Starting With December Quarter

by John_A

During today’s fourth quarter earnings call, Apple CFO Luca Maestri announced that going forward, Apple will not provide unit sales of iPhone, iPad, and Mac during its quarterly earnings reports.

This marks a major change to the way that Apple reports data and it will make estimating iPad, Mac, and iPhone product sales a more difficult task. Apple is perhaps making this change because its unit sales are decreasing while revenue is growing due to rising ASPs.

This quarter, for example, iPhone unit sales were flat at 46.9 million, but iPhone revenue was up 29 percent.

According to Maestri, Apple does not believe that unit sales over the course of a 90-day period are an indicator of the underlying strength of its business.

Apple also plans to rename the “Other Products” category to “Wearables, Home, and Accessories,” a change that will also be made in the December quarter. This category will continue to include the Apple Watch, Apple TV, AirPods, HomePods, Beats headphones, and more.

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Fairy’s Pie – Torta delle Fate

My “Fairy’s Pie” it is my Christmas gift to you.

This is a good creamy cake, to prepare the dough kindly refer to category preparations “Dough for cakes # 3″ for more details.

If you cannot find the ricotta cheese you can use your favorite light creamy cheese.

The poppy seeds are to complete this cake, in the case you don’t like or don’t find the poppy seeds in the market you can avoid to add them, or you can replace with a small quantity of another sweet spice for example bark of candied orange.

This cake is for the  kids, please replace the liquor with the juice of a fresh lemon.

Ingredients: (one pie)

for the Dough: (one pie)

half pound (250 gr) of flour type “00”

2 oz (50 gr) of yeast

half pound  (250 gr) of butter

4 oz (100 gr) of sugarone glass of whole milk

for the stuffing cream: (1 pie)

two pounds (1 kg) of ricotta cheese – three-four pinches of cinnamon

two eggsfour oz (100 gr) of raisins two spoons of flour type “00”

Half glass of liquor or squeeze the juice of one fresh lemon

First of all we have to grown up the yeast, so put it in to warm milk adding half spoon ofsugar

let it aside for 10-15 minutes.

put together in to a bowl the butter, flour and sugar(I prefer brown sugar),  work themtogether until you get small flakes (the consistence of grated cheese) for this mixture.

Add the yeast dissolved in themilk work everything for few minutes and you will get a consistent dough.

Separate it in two parts.

with the two parts make with the “mattarello” a first flat shape which can fit inside your oven baking-pan and a second flat shape to lately cover the pie.

Set it inside the oven baking-pan. Cook at 660 Fahrenheit to dry it for three-four minutes, this is the base of your cake. recover from the oven and put aside ready to be used. The second part of the dough should be flatted and set as top of your cake, it  doesn’t need to be previously cooked.

Let’s start the stuffing cream: wash well the raisins in running water.

Dry from the water using the colander, then you’ll squeeze the raisins, too.

As the raisins is dry mix with half-glass of rum (or cognac) or, if you want to avoid alcohol, add lemon juice: squeeze it from a fresh lemon please!

 Here we go!

put in to a bowl the two eggs (here are four eggs: why? this because usually I make two cakes: one for my guests and one for my!!! ah, ah, ah!), also the ricotta cheese and the sugar are to be added.

You can mix all together with a fork or a whip

In few minutes you should obtain a homogeneous  creamy consistence.

Now you’ll add two spoons  (and no more than two spoons or you will miss the consistence of the cake) of flour type “00”.

 Mix well everything.

 After this add the cinnamon….

 …also add the poppy seeds and…

… the raisins.

 Again mix everything very well until the stuffing become homogeneous.

Drop the stuffing on top of the flat dough which you dried in the oven few minutes ago.

Make a smooth and even layer with the creamy stuffing.

 Use the “mattarello” to flat the second part of the dough

In order to make a correct shape for the top use the oven baking-pan, seating it on top of the flat-dough and then cutting around with scissors.

 With a fork you’ll make small holes on the flat-dough now.

With kindness move the flat-dough inside the oven baking-pan just on top of the stuffing, fit it to the internal border but do not press it too much.

 Cut off the excess of it.

 This is the result.

Put in the oven at 660 fahrenheit (350 Celsius) for 25 minutes, pay attention to not burn the top (if the oven is ventilated the heat could burn the top).

I told you I made two pies! obviously I used double ingredients.

You like to garnish the top of the pie when ready? You do it as you like. To me the natural color of this pie is so beautiful and I love “rustico” style.

I give more attention to the taste which is so soft and sweet like “a kiss of a beautiful fairy”.

Merry Christmas !!!

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Fiddler, Excel, and "Good Enough"

My family's dog of 10 years, Neko, unfortunately passed away a couple of months ago. My parents decided that now was a good time to start looking for another beautiful dog to bring into their life, but were having some trouble finding a dog that fit their requirements. Neko, and our dog before that, Macy, were both black British Labrador females. More than that, they actually came from the same breeder, some 14 odd years apart. Unfortunately the breeder didn't have any available, and so my dad went out to get a list of breeders that he could contact. So he shot me an email.

The American Kennel Club (or AKC for short) has a "Breeder of Merit" program. If you're looking to get a dog, I would highly recommend looking at your local shelter dogs as your first priority, but my parents had something pretty specific in mind. The issue is that the list of breeder's forces you to select a single state, can't sort by breed, and only lets you see 45 at a time.

Picture of the AKC results

There are a couple of elements that immediately make me think that we can work around this. First, the website has a cfm extension, which means that they're using ColdFusion, and usually means that it's a DIY website with not a ton of backend sophistication. Secondly, the 45 restriction is unlikely to be something that's required by the server, and more just a client-side restriction. Fiddler is the perfect tool for something like this.

Fiddler logo

Fiddler is a debugging proxy tool for logging, inspecting, and altering HTTP and HTTPS traffic. Basically when you do something on a website, a request goes from your computer to the server that powers the website. Fiddler sits in-between that connection, and lets you see what goes out and what comes in. Tools like this are very dangerous when an attacker is using them (this is a "Man In The Middle" or MITM attack) to nab your bank account details on the way to logging in, but are very useful when you're using it yourself. We can fire up Fiddler, and fire off the search again, making sure to look for the blue "POST" request.

There's one that's making a request to "apps/breederofmerit/components/BreederOfMerit.cfc", and that looks right up our alley. Clicking over to Inspect the traffic, we can see that it has a list of parameters that it's passing to the backend.

We can also take a look at the raw response that's being passed back by the server.

I ...'d some of the information out, but you can see roughly what's being returned. It also tells you the total row count, which is super helpful for this case. Alright, so now we can kind of see how the "Fiddler" bit of the title comes in, but what about the "Excel" and "Good Enough" bits? At this point, we have a request that we can tweak slightly and send again. We could increment the page number and get the second page of results. We could try and sort on the breed, and only return the top ones because "British Labrador" is pretty close to the top. We could try and figure out how the filter parameter works, and use that to search for Labrador directly. We also want states other than California (we're looking at a multi-state radius including CA, OR, NV, AZ, WA, and UT), so we could spend some time trying to figure out how to expand the state search. These are all possible approaches, but I don't care about an elegant solution, I just want the data. So let's just set the page size to 1604. And it works like a charm.

First one has the 45 rows of data, the second one has all 1604. Rather than process them in Python or anything, a simple regex (replacing \[(.*?)\], with \1\n) gets it into a format that can be read as a CSV file. Rather than coming up with some clever way to handle the multiple states, I just did it 6 times for each state. I took all of it, dumped it in one large Excel document, and filtered by breed. Voila! From start to finish under 15 minutes, and something that would have taken ages to do by hand.

The moral of the story is twofold:

  1. If a website is doing it, so can you just by mimicking the request. You'd be surprised at what you can get away with when people expect that the only thing being sent up is from their own code.
  2. If you're doing something once, the slightly more manual hacky way usually is a better use of your time.

XKCD around automation


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Heater differences and hot tub covers

We recently received an excellent comment on our blog post Gas Hot Tub Heaters VS Electric Hot Tub Heaters. Sandra says…

“In Hawaii our propane is $6.00 a gallon while our electricity is .45 cents a kilowatt. Either way you cut it, it is very expensive to run a hot tub but I’m not sure that running the heat for hours every day as opposed to turning on the gas only when you want to heat it up makes much sense. If the tub is used irregularly it makes more sense to use gas; which heats up in 30 minutes as opposed to electric which takes 3 hours to heat up the same amount of water. So what I’m learning is that electric heaters are meant to run for hours a day with the circulating pump and have a cover that keeps in the heat where as the gas heaters are meant to use on demand. So it will depend on the usage as to which one makes more sense. The question now is where to have a hard cover made since we put in electric before realizing all of the above.”

It’s true that a gas heater will heat the water faster than an electric heater, and you’re “spot on” that the faster heat rise is tailor made for a tub that’s used infrequently (e.g., no more often than just on the weekends), but even if you use the tub just a couple times per week, and regardless of the energy source, it will probably cost the same to keep it heated for use at all times as it will to allow it to cool between uses, assuming that it is covered when not in use.

You have to run the pump a certain number of hours per day for proper filtration, again regardless of use, and in most situations a good-sized electric heater will regain the heat lost over the previous day in a small fraction of the time needed for filtration.

We have formulae into which we plugged your energy costs. Those costs are extraordinary – no doubt part of that “paradise tax” we’ve heard you Hawaiians pay – and although electric is generally less expensive than propane in most locales, it’s about double the cost in your case, and that would have been the best reason to install a gas heater versus an electric.

Since you already have an electric heater installed, you can take as a consolation the difference in cost between the two heaters, because the cost of a gas hot tub heater is over twice the cost of an electric hot tub heater. Even though in your case the cost of running a gas heater would have been less than that of an electric heater, if your tub will only be use infrequently, it would have taken that much longer to recover the difference in the costs of the two types of heaters.

Although it doesn’t apply in your case, as a side note to others reading this response, and as noted elsewhere in our blog, a gas heater should never be operated outdoors in freezing weather.

Regardless of how much your tub is used or the type of heat source you’re using, you definitely want to cover your hot tub. A cover definitely does help keep heat in, but it also helps keep dirt and debris out. Even though you’re filtering and running your tub regularly (as you should regardless of use), leaving it uncovered would be an open invitation not only to falling debris (such as leaves), but also to animals, bugs and even possibly other people. A hot tub that is uncovered and unattended could quickly turn into a possible liability.

Of course you can get your hot tub cover from us! We offer a custom cover at the same price you’d pay elsewhere for a mass produced cover, and you should be very careful to steer clear of any covers made in China, as the materials and workmanship are clearly substandard. If you’re going to go through the trouble and cost of getting a new cover, wouldn’t you want it to fit your hot tub exactly and last many years? On http://www.almostheaven.net/aho/covers.htm you can see the options and pricing for our covers. You can give us your hot tub’s exact dimension, and we’ll make you a cover that is exactly the right size and shape.

Hope to hear from you soon!


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5 New-Age Ways of Recruitment

Recruitment these days is far different from what it was earlier. Remember the days when while searching for jobs, one had to write cover letters, take print-outs of updated resumes and other credentials and send via post? Then sending applications migrated from post to email. Now, applying for a job has become so much easier, what with numerous social media platforms and job-seeking websites out there to help one out. Recruiters have thrown out the traditional ways of hiring talent and adopted new and interesting ways to find the right member for their office squad.

Below are the 5 new-age ways of talent recruitment.

1. Professional Networking Sites

Professional networking sites are all the rage! Making an account that has all your academic documents together with a list of work experiences and updated resumes are not only good for job seekers. Recruiters can also make company profiles and advertise their job postings. With numerous job seekers making accounts on professional networking sites, the recruiter is able to find talent filtered to their company’s requirements. This makes it easier for them to start the interviewing process.

Some of the useful professional networking sites are:

  • LinkedIn – This is a professional networking site. It is business and employment-oriented and provides a medium to job seekers and opportunity providers to connect.
  • Alumni Alliances – This is an exclusive alumni network that caters to alumni and students. It provides opportunities for job seekers as well as a platform for recruiters to meet potential talent. It also helps to Network, Raise Capital, Provide Business Solutions, Provide or Seek Mentorship, Promote Business and Real Estate, participate in the Marketplace and get connected with Influencers.
  • Indeed – This is an employment-related search engine that includes job listings from various websites, job boards, staffing firms, associations, and company career pages.
  • JobisJob – This is an international job search portal where one can search for listings anywhere in the world.

2. Inbound Recruitment

While professional networking sites are really useful, they are still used by recruiters to ‘Reach Out’ and search for the right talent. What if recruiters could attract talent to themselves? Inbound recruitment is just the way to do that!

In the usual cases, a recruiter will hunt for the right fit for their organization. But in inbound recruitment, a recruiter will create an image around a company to be the best fit for the talent. In order to do so, the pain points of a potential candidate would first be analyzed. It can range from salary issues, organizational culture, incentives, flexibility on work timings, how approachable team leaders are, etc. By recognizing these pain points, an organization can create a lucrative image about themselves by creating positive content such as employee testimonials, company stories, bonuses or incentives, competitive remuneration together with fringe benefits. This will lead highly skilled candidates to a company instead of vice versa. Alumni Alliances is also a good way to tell your company story as well as create positive content. Alumni Alliances, led by USC alumni, is an exclusive networking site that caters to alumni and students.

3. Referrals

Another clever way to recruit talent is by getting your team members on this job as well! A recruiter can always inform team members about the type of person that they would like to recruit and to inform them about highly skilled personnel with whom they would have worked with, in their previous employment. Lucrative incentives can be offered such as rewards, more leaves and gift vouchers which could entice an employee to help out in the recruitment process.

4. Interview Processes

Scene: A potential candidate, wearing a formal suit and beads of perspiration, enters a meeting room that is washed with the color grey. He is ushered to the only empty chair in the room that looks towards five daunting professionals, with beady eyes and years of experience lining their faces. Without a word, one extends her arm for the resume that the candidate clutches in his hand…

This scene must have played repeatedly in many interview rooms but now the situation is completely different. Recruiters would like team players hence provide a light environment where they can interview a talent. Interview venues have moved from an impersonal meeting room to restaurants, quaint coffee shops, and cafes where the interview process becomes conversational.

5. Diversity Yet Belonging

In order to maintain inclusiveness in an organization, a recruiter may recruit talent from one ethnicity, background, location, gender, etc. But recruiting a diverse workforce increases the range of talent, ideas, and perspectives in an organization. In order for a diverse workforce to work effectively, one must create a sense of belonging. Have a look at the following ways to maintain a diverse workforce.

  • Occasions relating to religious and cultural significance must be celebrated by all.
  • Mini teams within the organization must also be diverse.
  • Team leaders (at least project wise) should be rotated to ensure fairness, objectiveness, and effectiveness prevails.

These are the 5 new-age ways that we think would help in finding the right fit for your organization. Do you think otherwise? Let us know your thoughts by commenting below. Stay tuned to Alumni Insider for more helpful articles. Also, if you haven’t signed up already, then get on board Alumni Alliances to connect with many professionals from your alma mater.

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BUWOG Family Day – a day with an inside look into our company for the whole family
Foto: Fabian Frühling

BUWOG Family Day – a day with an inside look into our company for the whole family

What family-friendliness means at BUWOG

Family-friendliness at the company is more than just a slogan! If we want to actively tend to the concerns of our own employees and continually work at remaining attractive as an employer, objectives the BUWOG Group has set for itself, then it’s also worthwhile to provide the families a glimpse into the working life of our employees.

Our employees spend a lot of time in the company, identify with our projects and client-orientation in practice, and sometimes that also means working a little longer. That’s certainly family time that the family misses out on and for that reason we would like to extend our thanks at least 1x/year for the understanding provided. At the same time, we want to give the families and, first and foremost, our employees’ kids insight into professional life early on and, specifically, into the BUWOG Group’s business model and projects. Our executive board members as well as managing directors and department heads have generated plenty of enthusiasm with their child-friendly presentations at every location. The kids simply find exciting going to where mom and dad work every day, who their colleagues are and what they actually do there. For partners and relatives it also generates greater understanding for the respective profession and the numerous different tasks within our company.

To remain creative and stay on the ball in matters of family-friendliness, we’ve decided to join the Austrian Federal Ministry of Families and Youth (BMFJ) network „Companies for Families“ in order to strengthen the exchange of ideas and promotion of compatibility between career and family even further.

Have a look at the BUWOG Group’s appearance here on the “Companies for Families” website (in German).

Family Day – the families of BUWOG Group employees get to know our company

Shortly before Christmas we organised the BUWOG Family Day at the Vienna, Villach, Berlin and Kiel company locations. The initiative was very successful at every subsidiary, with numerous kids, partners, families and friends accepting the invitation. The feedback after the events was also thoroughly positive.

Besides tours through every department, there were entertaining and child-friendly talks about BUWOG and activities for the little ones. In Kiel, for instance, Thorsten Gleitz, head of property management, even managed to comprehensibly explain such difficult subjects as the “stock market” to the kids – with the help of drawings by his own children. For Daniel Riedl, CEO of the BUWOG Group, it was also important to be there in person for Family Days and to get to know the families of employees.

An arts-and-crafts and make-up corner for the small guests and hot-mulled wine and other delicacies for the grown-ups were also quite popular.

As Family Day was scheduled in Berlin and Kiel right on 6 December, St. Nicholas turned up at both locations, of course, and there were presents for the many kids in attendance.
In Berlin the Deputy CEO and CFO, Andreas Segal, welcomed the families and provided insight into our everyday professional life.

We in Human Resources are very pleased our board members not only make this type of event possible, but also make a personal effort. Thus family-friendliness is not just a slogan, but carried out in practice.

We’re already looking forward to the next Family Day in 2017!

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St. Nicholas in Berlin, Christmas tree in Kiel

The kids asked a lot of questions about BUWOG

Photos: Fabian Frühling, Claudia Hechtenberg, Arman Rastegar

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Cold? Grab a Blanket

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The other day we talked about staying comfortable. Clothes that feel good are more awesome than those that do not. This seems obvious. Also obvious in its awesomeness? Blankets.

For some people, curling up beneath a warm blanket is equivalent to being greeted with a loving hug. At ClothingShopOnline, our blanket department is overflowing with inexpensive options that’ll keep you warm throughout the winter (and content with a lower gas bill).

Here are our three favorites.

The Fleece Sport Blanket (only $9.49) comes in eight great colors and is 100% polyester. Made to keep you warm while sitting outside at football games (get three or four if you’re from New England or Denver), these are also phenomenal options for the living room couch.

Our Infant Thermal Blanket ($8.09) comes in three standard baby colors (blue, pink, and white) and is the perfect size and material to keep your child warmer than you are. Because isn’t that what being a parent is all about? Making sure your child is better off than you are? Anyway, if you don’t have any kids, don’t hesitate to spring for one as a great gift.

Last but not least is our Promo Fleece Throw. It’s huge (just under 6’x6’, and comes in five colors.

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Continuous Security Testing and Automated Cyber Risk Assessment Scores

By Mor Ahuvia

*This blog's content has been updated on Sept. 23, 2020.

Continuous security validation is the practice of challenging, measuring and optimizing the effectiveness of an organizations security controls, infrastructure configurations, policy enforcement, and more on an ongoing basis.

Also called “security effectiveness testing,” the objective of continuous security validation is to enable constant optimization of an organizations security stack by testing it in production and providing security teams immediate actionable insights to take corrective measures.

It achieves this goal by automating a comprehensive range of simulated threats, payloads and attack tactics and techniques to uncover security gaps, weaknesses and misconfigurations that may be exploited by potential adversaries.

Continuous security validation is performed using automated technology such as breach and attack simulation, with 28% of security professionals currently using BAS to test their security controls, according to a SANS Institute poll.

The Advantages of Continuous Security Testing

Echoing a general move from binary, point-in-time security decisions to a more continuous and adaptive approach to implementing information security strategies, a continuous cyber risk assessment has emerged to address the reality of IT environments that are in constant flux, alongside an evolving threat landscape that requires greater focus and resources on early detection and response, rather than relying primarily on prevention (see Gartner’s CARTA model).

By implementing continuous security validation, organizations can better address the following:

  • Daily emergence of new strainsNew variants of ransomware, trojans, cryptominers and cryptostealers surface every day, requiring preventive controls to be updated with the latest indicators of compromise (IoCs). Manually checking that these controls can block the latest phishing sites, infection points, command and control servers etc. is time consuming and not practical. Continuous security validation operationalizes threat intelligence. It creates simulations of the latest threats for security teams to validate and optimize the effectiveness of their detection and prevention security controls and defend against them faster.

security testingFigure 1: Continuous security testing helps defend against the latest threats faster

  • Evolving stealth techniques – Preventive IoC-based controls are useless against signature-less and fileless attacks, making behavior-based detection tools, such as deception honeypots, EDRs and EUBA tools essential for their detection. But how do you know if your machine learning and AI-based solutions are effective against these threats? By continuously testing their effectiveness against simulated cyber attacks, organizations can continually fine tune these tools’ configuration settings to enable their faster detection.

  • Frequent changes to the IT environment –Every day, IT environments change, whether it’s through deliberate network policy changes, the use of unvetted shadow IT, employees joining or leaving a company, or new software, hardware or virtual environments being deployed. Assessing the impact of these changes on an organization’s security posture removes blind spots that may be discovered as unpleasant surprises.

  • Frequent changes to the security stack – An often-overlooked area are changes in the security stack that inadvertently create security gaps. These can be created through human error, misconfiguration, or as a by-product of vendor software updates. Continuous security validation provides quality assurance to changes in the security stack.
  • Limited manpower and budget –Continuous security validation helps security leaders get the most out of their limited headcount and budget. By continually identifying gaps and prioritizing remediation efforts to where exposure is highest, security teams can extract the highest ROI out of their existing security stack. Plus, by having the tools and knowhow to improve their security posture, organizations are reducing their reliance on resource intensive infrastructure pen-testing, focusing them on pinpoint objectives or regulatory compliance audits.
  • State sponsored threat actors –Dozens of APT groups have been identified working for nation states for financial, political, and military gains. Equipped with zero-days that are found through research or purchased from private brokers, these groups have the money, time and skill required to carry out sophisticated, persistent attacks. By continually challenging security controls against techniques used by these groups, organizations can better position themselves for timely detection of these threats.

security testingFigure 2: Continuous testing enables tweaking controls against state-sponsored APT groups

  • External touchpoints and supply chain attacks - Consumer-facing portals, health information exchanges (HIEs), financial services interconnected through payment gateways and automated clearing houses (ACHs), and enterprises automating their supply chain - all present a measure of security risk to an organization’s security posture. Configuration testing, including testing controls, such as WAFs (to prevent a CapitalOne-style breach), email gateways, infrastructure controls that limit lateral movement, and others, is critical to reducing the cyber risk created from these touchpoints and preventing supply chain attacks.

How It Works

In a nutshell, imagine that you have at your disposal the accumulated skills of all your potential adversaries. Instead of wreaking havoc they tell you where their attacks were successful, they tell you what you can do about it, and they do it on demand or all the time.

How is this achieved? Cymulate Research Labs stays abreast of the very latest threats and techniques, updating the platform daily with Immediate Threats Intelligence. They use the MITRE ATT&CK Framework to reference atomic executions and attack vectors for you to assure complete coverage. The Framework also serves as a common language that can be used internally or with security service and technology providers. The accumulation of platform capabilities enables organizations to rapidly assess their resilience against a comprehensive set of attack simulations and latest threats.

Using automated breach and attack simulation, security teams:

  1. Simulate cyber attacks across the full kill chain.
  2. Evaluate controls based on identified gaps.
  3. Remediate exposures using actionable insights.
  4. Repeat hourly, weekly, daily or whenever.

security testingFigure 3: Continuous Security Testing in 4 Steps

Continuous Testing Against Continuous Threats

The latest string of ransomware hold-ups, business email compromises and state-sponsored APT campaigns require a shift in cyber security strategy. By continually challenging your security controls, uncovering their weak spots and tweaking them to improve their effectiveness, security teams can continually shrink their attack surface and improve their organization’s overall security posture.

To learn why organizations are moving to continuous security effectiveness testing, get your complimentary copy of Gartner’s report, titled How to Respond to the 2019 Threat Landscape.

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Tuesday, January 14, 2020

Antique Sheraton & Hepplewhite Furniture

While perusing my collection of antique furniture catalogs I came across some nice looking pieces that I would thought would be of interest to our readers and folks in general. The photography is in black and white and a little rough on the detail, but that's how it goes.

The photos and provided descriptions still allow us to see the detail, style, and hardware so that furniture artists can do a better job of maintaining historical accuracy when restoring antiques or actually doing full reproduction antique builds like D. Lawless Hardware got it's start doing back in the 80's.

To start we have a nice example of a mahogany chest of drawers in a Hepplewhite style. We carry some nice Hepplewhite style bail pulls as pictured for artists that want each piece to look accurate.

hepplewhite style chest of drawers

The front of this chest of drawers is swelled. There are four drawers with the edges finished with cock beadings. The feet are in a style known as French feet and the brass handles are of course in a Hepplewhite style.

Next we have a nice piece with Chippendale style hardware.

antique chippendale style dresser

This chest of drawers has a straight front. Four drawers with a slide on the top. All finished with cock beadings. The corner columns are are reeded. The legs are in the usual cabriole form, ending in a bird's claw and ball feet.

This next piece is a mahogany cellarette in a Sheraton style.

sheraton style cellarette

This one is in a plain box form with the front corners chamfered and fluted stubbed feet. Then the nice single round brass with ring pull in the center.

This next piece is circa 1790 and features simple swan neck bail pulls and is also in a Sheraton Style.

antique sheraton style desk

The cover of the desk falls on a curve over the desk portion. There are two drawers with fluted surfaces and rosettes on the end framing. An astragal finishes the lower edge, the legs are fluted and reeded, and the brackets are carved nicely with leaf scrolls.

And finally a gothic style drop leaf table from the mid 1700's.

drop leaf table in a gothic style

Also featuring a swan neck bail pull this style of table was very popular at the time. The outline is cut in ogee curves and the edges are carved in acanthus leaf mouldings. The legs are made to represent cluster columns which are familar to Gothic architecture. X underbracing to strengthen up the legs.

More in the future if I find people are interested! Thanks for reading!

ReneeSS said...

Wow...this is phenomenal!!! Thank you so much for posting this great information!

KLee said...

Thank you very much. I love learning about furniture. Appreciate you taking time to assemble this entry.