Santiago Galicia Rojon Serrallonga Derechos reservados conforme a la ley/ Copyright Y un día, a cierta hora, cuando regresaba a casa, me di cuenta de que la vida es breve y no tiene caso desperdiciarla en tristezas ni en desamores, y menos en causar daño a otros. Y un día, mientras recapitulaba los días de […]

Y un día, entendí… — Santiago Galicia Rojon Serrallonga

Photo credited to Pexels-waldir-Ã ©vora We are all perfect, we can’t be replicated. Being thankful for all we are, including our features and our ethnicity can be difficult for those of us who are constantly maligned. Fully loving all of ourselves will save us from despair. © Norma Bobb-Semple 2021

Perfection — normabobb

Using discarded wood to create one-of-a-kind bowls, an 80-year-old Vancouver man has turned what he calls a small gesture from his garage into a large fundraiser with global interest. “I feel so happy to do something for somebody,” Nirmal Singh Bhogal said about his effort to raise funds for kids with cancer in B.C. Bhogal’s labour of love begins at the crack of dawn nearly every day, working well past dusk and taking his core value of selfless service, known as seva in Punjabi, to a new level.

Source: B.C. grandfather helps sick kids with handcrafted wooden bowls | Globalnews.ca

This Vegan Potato Salad is creamy and loaded with tender potatoes, onion, carrots, and celery in each bite. Whip up a batch for dinner or a summer side dish that will win over any crowd.

Source: Vegan Potato Salad | Summer Side Dish | Oh My Veggies

Three months after Tesla said it would begin accepting the cryptocurrency Bitcoin as payment, the electric carmaker has abruptly reversed course. In a message posted to Twitter on Wednesday, Elon Musk, Tesla’s chief executive, said Tesla had suspended accepting Bitcoin because of concern about the energy consumed by computers crunching the calculations that underpin the currency. “Cryptocurrency is a good idea on many levels and we believe it has a promising future, but this cannot come at a great cost to the environment,” Mr. Musk wrote. “We are concerned about rapidly increasing use of fossil fuels for Bitcoin mining and transactions, especially coal, which has the worst emissions of any fuel.”

For the first time, the United States will require all software purchased by the federal government to meet, within six months, a series of new cybersecurity standards. Although the companies would have to “self-certify,” violators would be removed from federal procurement lists, which could kill their chances of selling their products on the commercial market.

The order also establishes an incident review board, much like the teams that investigate airline accidents, to learn lessons from major hacking episodes. The White House is mandating that the first incident under review will be the SolarWinds hack, in which Russia’s premier intelligence agency altered the computer code of an American company’s network management software. It gave Russia broad access to 18,000 agencies, organizations and companies, mostly in the United States.

The new order also requires all federal agencies to encrypt data, whether it is in storage or while it is being transmitted — two very different challenges. When China stole 21.5 million files about federal employees and contractors holding security clearances, none of the files were encrypted, meaning they could be easily read. (Chinese hackers, investigators later concluded, encrypted the files themselves — to avoid being detected as they sent the sensitive records back to Beijing.)

For the first time, the United States will require all software purchased by the federal government to meet, within six months, a series of new cybersecurity standards. Although the companies would have to “self-certify,” violators would be removed from federal procurement lists, which could kill their chances of selling their products on the commercial market. The order also establishes an incident review board, much like the teams that investigate airline accidents, to learn lessons from major hacking episodes. The White House is mandating that the first incident under review will be the SolarWinds hack, in which Russia’s premier intelligence agency altered the computer code of an American company’s network management software. It gave Russia broad access to 18,000 agencies, organizations and companies, mostly in the United States. The new order also requires all federal agencies to encrypt data, whether it is in storage or while it is being transmitted — two very different challenges. When China stole 21.5 million files about federal employees and contractors holding security clearances, none of the files were encrypted, meaning they could be easily read. (Chinese hackers, inv

As violence continues, Israel’s The Jerusalem Post calls on other countries to “stand with Israel”, while Haaretz blames PM Benjamin Netanyahu for pursuing a “disastrous strategy” that is now ‘blowing up in Israel’s face”. Emirati paper The National and Saudi paper Arab News decry Israel for “raining death on Gaza”, while other regional papers criticise Palestinian leaders and the Trump administration. In the US, The Washington Post warns Joe Biden against getting dragged back into the “long-moribund” peace process.  Source: Netanyahu’s ‘disastrous strategy’ is ‘blowing up in Israel’s face’ – In the press

Source: Slovakia plans to keeping using AstraZeneca despite pause – The Washington Post

Source: Israeli unrest: Arab citizens protest over Gaza and Jerusalem – The Washington Post