Daily bread 06/30/2020

• Colombia's capital may lock down again to prevent healthcare collapse

  • on a crash course
  • an occupancy rate
  • seek to
  • urging him
  • stepped up pressure
  • would generate chaos
  • rushed to restart the economy
  • expected to peak.
  • being decimated by
  • oblivious to the alarms

• How hackers extorted $1.14m from University of California, San Francisco - BBC News

  • A leading medical-research institution
  • paid hackers a $1.14m (£910,000) ransom
  • a covert negotiation
  • The Netwalker criminal gang
  • staff unplugged computers
  • malware
  • an anonymous tip-off
  • the dark web
  • ransomware attacks
  • At first glance,
  • ticking down
  • the data they have scrambled
  • UCSF was met with the following message
  • begged them to accept $780,000
  • back-and-forth negotiations
  • it had pulled together all available money
  • it had procured more money
  • serving the public good
  • pay some portion of the ransom
  • in exchange for
  • It would be a mistake to assume that all of the statements and claims made in the negotiations are factually accurate
  • a pinky-promise
  • a booby-trapped emaiI
  • phishing lures

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Daily bread 06/22/2020

• The Spirit of Sauntering: Thoreau on the Art of Walking and the Perils of a Sedentary Lifestyle – Brain Pickings

  • e ready to leave father and mother, and brother and sister, and wife and child and friends, and never see them again — if you have paid your debts, and made your will, and settled all your affairs, and are a free man — then you are ready for a walk.

     

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• Colombia urged to rethink tax-free day after ‘Covid Friday’ | Financial Times

  • to scrap
  • eye-catching economic policies
  • to flout social distancing rules
  • Colombians flocked to shopping centres
  • pick up bargains.
  • long queues
  • flooded with images
  • people jostling to enter shops
  • hauling away
  • non-existent
  • from March onwards
  • to abandon or at least postpone
  • shoppers opted to buy online
  • struggled to cope with demand.
  • enticing them to shop
  • a spike in coronavirus numbers.
  • rising sharply
  • new cases topped 3,000.
  • seems to have peaked
  • the worst may be yet to come

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Daily bread 06/19/2020

• Ten 10-Year Trends for the Future of Healthcare: Implications for Academic Health Centers

  • computer assisted diagnosis
  • DNA chip technology
  • health plan data
  • online clinical research

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Daily bread 06/18/2020

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