JOBFINDING: Security Risk and Vulnerability Consultant Chicago

Thursday, May 9, 2013

In case you know of anyone actively looking – Security Risk and Vulnerability Consultant Needed. Multiple Roles. The windy city…

Resumes need to be submitted by Wednesday 4/24 by 12noon CST

This is a contract position with one of the largest healthcare insurance providers in the US. This consultant would be working out of Chicago for between $80-$105/hour, for the next three months utilizing their experience and background identifying security vulnerabilities. Security researcher hat on here. Enterprise level.

They will be conducting application analysis, network analysis and debugging – reporting the security vulnerabilities and the risks they present to all levels of stakeholders within the department. They will also be recommending mitigating solutions to remediate the risks found. Working with a very cool team of cats…not the meow kind…although they could be construed as such…from a herding perspective; they’re some of the best!

More details upon request. All the best –

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JOBFINDING: A senior business analyst NYC

Thursday, May 9, 2013

Hope all is well. I am looking to work with a candidate to place them at a high profile manager. If you know anyone who meets these requirements or if there are any questions please have them contact me directly.

Client: A manager with over $3 billion in assets under management, the manager is an alternative investment firm focused on asset-based credit investments.

Duration: 6 months option to extend
Rate: $90-$120 hourly (pending on level)
Interview: 2 step process- with business and technology
Location: Midtown
Start Date: on or around June 1st

Primary Requirements:
• A senior business analyst; Around 10 yrs. experience
• Extensive experience in fixed income mortgage back office area
• Help us on detailed technical specification; Individual needs to spec out business process and translate business requirements into a technical project implementation plan.
• Potential projects include trade booking, connectivity to counterparty (Trade/Position Files), clearing, margin maintenance etc.
• Technical environment: C#.NET, MS SQL

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TINFOILHAT: New assertions in Patton’s death

Thursday, May 9, 2013

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/northamerica/usa/3869117/General-George-S.-Patton-was-assassinated-to-silence-his-criticism-of-allied-war-leaders-claims-new-book.html

General George S. Patton was assassinated to silence his criticism of allied war leaders claims new book
George S. Patton, America’s greatest combat general of the Second World War, was assassinated after the conflict with the connivance of US leaders, according to a new book.

By Tim Shipman in Washington 7:16PM GMT 20 Dec 2008

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The newly unearthed diaries of a colourful assassin for the wartime Office of Strategic Services (OSS), the forerunner of the CIA, reveal that American spy chiefs wanted Patton dead because he was threatening to expose allied collusion with the Russians that cost American lives.

The death of General Patton in December 1945, is one of the enduring mysteries of the war era. Although he had suffered serious injuries in a car crash in Manheim, he was thought to be recovering and was on the verge of flying home.

But after a decade-long investigation, military historian Robert Wilcox claims that OSS head General “Wild Bill” Donovan ordered a highly decorated marksman called Douglas Bazata to silence Patton, who gloried in the nickname “Old Blood and Guts”.

His book, “Target Patton”, contains interviews with Mr Bazata, who died in 1999, and extracts from his diaries, detailing how he staged the car crash by getting a troop truck to plough into Patton’s Cadillac and then shot the general with a low-velocity projectile, which broke his neck while his fellow passengers escaped without a scratch.

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I never heard this one before.

Seems likely since he was very anti-communist and the Gooferment was steering us towards Socialism.

Didn’t see any illusion of this in the movie. 

Guess it didn’t advance the Party line and agenda.

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POLITICAL: Why legalize drugs?

Thursday, May 9, 2013

http://mobile.alternet.org/alternet/#!/entry/why-good-parents-should-support-drug-legalization,51856679da27f5d9d0ba39d9/7

Why Good Parents Should Support Drug Legalization

May 4, 2013 |
A friend of mine used to laugh when I said I was in favor of legalizing all drugs. He just couldn’t fathom such a position. He told me that if they legalized drugs, “It would take all of the fun out of it.”

Three years after he died of a heroin overdose, I wonder whether he’d be alive now if drugs had been legal.

As a father, I sometimes find myself on the receiving end of an argument that’s a perennial favorite [3] of the hardened drug warrior: Why would I, the father of a nine-year-old girl, advocate for a society awash with legally available drugs?

The answer is simple: My daughter is already growing up in a society in which illegal drugs are easier to procure than alcohol. Unlike the guy behind the counter of my local liquor store, I’ve never known a drug dealer who checked IDs.

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If you buy alcohol you know it’s not cut with rat poison.

If I had a kid, I don’t want the to die for a mistake.

Similarly, I don’t what them to spend time in jail for what is basically a medical condition.

And, like in Prohibition, all the killings are from drug dealer’s turf war.

So I want Walmart, Walgreens, and RiteAid to be the nation’s drug dealers.

We’ll all be better off!

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MONEY: The political counter-party risk in Social Security

Wednesday, May 8, 2013

http://www.obliviousinvestor.com/the-political-risk-of-delaying-social-security-until-70/

The Political Risk of Delaying Social Security Until 70
via Oblivious Investor by Mike on 5/6/13

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Some people argue that holding off on claiming Social Security is akin to betting that there won’t be any rule changes. I don’t think that’s true. While certain Social Security reforms would make it advantageous to claim earlier, other reforms wouldn’t change the decision at all, and others could actually make it more advantageous to delay claiming benefits.

The five potential Social Security reforms that I see suggested most often are:

Increasing or eliminating the payroll tax cap,
Increasing the payroll tax rate,
Increasing the full retirement age,
Means testing benefits in some way, and
Switching from regular CPI to chained CPI for calculating cost of living adjustments.

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One would hope that once you begin to collect that “they” won’t change the rules ex post facto.

We now that they can and do (i.e., the taxability of benefits).

But the Sheeple and Clover let them get away with it.

Argh!

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POLITICAL: Columbia leftist institution

Tuesday, May 7, 2013

http://www.foxnews.com/on-air/oreilly/index.html

A convicted cop killer teaching at Columbia!? 

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Absolutely disgusting. 

I’m no “fan” of the kops.

But this was a political murder.

Columbia should be ashamed.

But it never is!

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GOLDBUG: Waiting lists for coins and bars?

Tuesday, May 7, 2013

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/personalfinance/investing/gold/10028183/Gold-buyers-forced-to-go-on-waiting-list.html

HOME»FINANCE»PERSONAL FINANCE»INVESTING»GOLD
Gold buyers forced to go on waiting list
Gold buyers are having to wait up to six weeks for their bars and coins after a price dip led to increased interest.

By Rosie Murray-West3:55PM BST 30 Apr 201358

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Investment company Physical Gold said there were waiting lists of three weeks for some coins, and four to six weeks for gold bars. “Previously all would have been available within a few days,” the company said.
The company said that it had seen a 50pc increase in enquiries about purchasing gold and a 35pc increase in sales, with people buying tax-free gold coins. “We are now starting to experience physical gold shortages,” said Daniel Fisher, CEO of Physical Gold.

“In particular there are waiting times on some gold bars and a real difficulty in obtaining mixed year Sovereigns. “However, many clients are willing to ‘do a deal’ and wait for delivery as they want to secure the current price as they feel it will be higher in the near future.”

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Yeah, the price drops on “paper” gold, but premiums (seniorage) on “hard” gold goes up.

Now who doesn’t think the Sheeple and Clovers aren’t being manipulated?

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RANT: Can’t drive a car, vote, or drink, BUT …

Monday, May 6, 2013

http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Government/2013/04/30/FDA–Morning-after-pill-to-move-over-the-counter

FDA: OTC MORNING-AFTER PILLS FOR 15-YEAR-OLDS
30 Apr 2013, 3:14 PM PDT 
By LAURAN NEERGAARD
AP Medical Writer
WASHINGTON

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The Plan B morning-after pill is moving over-the-counter, a decision announced by the Food and Drug Administration just days before a court-imposed deadline.

Tuesday, the FDA lowered to 15 the age at which girls and women can buy the emergency contraceptive without a prescription _ and said it no longer has to be kept behind pharmacy counters.

Instead, the pill can sit on drugstore shelves just like condoms, but that buyers would have to prove their age at the cash register. 

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So let me understand, these girls can’t drive a car, vote, or drink, BUT they can take powerful drugs with side affects?

And, I guess their parents get to clean up the mess afterwards?

So, what happened to statutory rape? Child molestation!

Argh!

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Interesting: Two servings of fish add to life

Sunday, May 5, 2013

Fish for Longevity

Fish for Longevity
Posted on April 22, 2013, 6 a.m. in Longevity Diet

Grilled Fish – image from Shutterstock
Fish contains heart-healthy protein and fatty acids, and the American Heart Association recommends eating two 3.5-ounce servings of fatty fish, such as salmon, mackerel, herring, lake trout and albacore tuna, each week. Dariush Mozaffarian, from the Harvard School of Public Health (Massachusetts, USA), and colleagues studied 2,692 American adults, average age 74 years, who did not have without prevalent coronary heart disease (CHD), stroke, or heart failure at the study’s start. The team measured phospholipid fatty acid levels and cardiovascular risk factors in 1992, and monitored relationships with total and cause-specific mortality and incident fatal or nonfatal CHD and stroke through 2008. The researchers found those subjects with the highest blood levels of omega-3 fatty acids — lived more than two years longer on average than those with lower blood levels. Specifically, the data revealed that people with the highest levels of omega-3s reduced their overall risk of death from any cause by up to 27%, as compared to those with the lowest levels; as well, they were at a 35% lower risk of dying from heart disease. The study authors conclude that: “Higher circulating individual and total [omega]3-[polyunsaturated fatty acid] levels are associated with lower total mortality, especially [coronary heart disease] death, in older adults.”

Does anyone believe, or I guess more importantly action, this?

The trouble with fish is it’s expensive and really doesn’t taste that good.

At the “home” here, I could eat it every day for lunch, but yuck!

Maybe it’s me, but I’m a carb guy!

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TINFOILHAT: Benghazi American deaths might have been avoidable

Saturday, May 4, 2013

http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Government/2013/04/29/Benghazi-Attack-Eyewitness-Help-Was-Available

BENGHAZI ATTACK EYEWITNESS: HELP WAS AVAILABLE

by KERRY PICKET 29 Apr 2013 

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An eyewitness to 2012’s infamous Benghazi attack says the U.S. did not employ all of the defensive resources it could have to save the American lives lost the night of September 11th.

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Does anyone think that the Sheeple and Clovers are getting the truth?

Anyone care?

It’s a cover up and it stinks!

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