war Ransomware Slams Healthcare, Logistics, Energy Firms By www.bankinfosecurity.in Published On :: Attacks Traced to Gangs Wielding Nefilim, Snake StrainsRansomware attacks hit at least four large organizations around the world this week, including a hospital group in Europe that has been battling the COVID-19 pandemic. Full Article
war Analysis: Ransomware's Costly Impact By www.databreachtoday.co.uk Published On :: The latest edition of the ISMG Security Report analyzes the rising costs of ransomware attacks and the latest victims. Also featured: An assessment of Australia's new contact-tracing app designed to help battle the spread of COVID-19, and a discussion of applying the "zero trust" model to the remote workforce. Full Article
war ENISA Launches Information Security Awareness Videos By www.databreachtoday.co.uk Published On :: The European Network and Information Security Agency [ENISA] has launched information security awareness videos in 23 European languages. Full Article
war Ransomware Slams Healthcare, Logistics, Energy Firms By www.databreachtoday.co.uk Published On :: Attacks Traced to Gangs Wielding Nefilim, Snake StrainsRansomware attacks hit at least four large organizations around the world this week, including a hospital group in Europe that has been battling the COVID-19 pandemic. Full Article
war Analysis: Ransomware's Costly Impact By www.careersinfosecurity.eu Published On :: The latest edition of the ISMG Security Report analyzes the rising costs of ransomware attacks and the latest victims. Also featured: An assessment of Australia's new contact-tracing app designed to help battle the spread of COVID-19, and a discussion of applying the "zero trust" model to the remote workforce. Full Article
war Ransomware Slams Healthcare, Logistics, Energy Firms By www.careersinfosecurity.eu Published On :: Attacks Traced to Gangs Wielding Nefilim, Snake StrainsRansomware attacks hit at least four large organizations around the world this week, including a hospital group in Europe that has been battling the COVID-19 pandemic. Full Article
war Analysis: Ransomware's Costly Impact By www.govinfosecurity.com Published On :: The latest edition of the ISMG Security Report analyzes the rising costs of ransomware attacks and the latest victims. Also featured: An assessment of Australia's new contact-tracing app designed to help battle the spread of COVID-19, and a discussion of applying the "zero trust" model to the remote workforce. Full Article
war Analysis: Ransomware's Costly Impact By www.careersinfosecurity.com Published On :: The latest edition of the ISMG Security Report analyzes the rising costs of ransomware attacks and the latest victims. Also featured: An assessment of Australia's new contact-tracing app designed to help battle the spread of COVID-19, and a discussion of applying the "zero trust" model to the remote workforce. Full Article
war Ransomware Slams Healthcare, Logistics, Energy Firms By www.careersinfosecurity.com Published On :: Attacks Traced to Gangs Wielding Nefilim, Snake StrainsRansomware attacks hit at least four large organizations around the world this week, including a hospital group in Europe that has been battling the COVID-19 pandemic. Full Article
war Analysis: Ransomware's Costly Impact By www.cuinfosecurity.com Published On :: The latest edition of the ISMG Security Report analyzes the rising costs of ransomware attacks and the latest victims. Also featured: An assessment of Australia's new contact-tracing app designed to help battle the spread of COVID-19, and a discussion of applying the "zero trust" model to the remote workforce. Full Article
war Ransomware Slams Healthcare, Logistics, Energy Firms By www.cuinfosecurity.com Published On :: Attacks Traced to Gangs Wielding Nefilim, Snake StrainsRansomware attacks hit at least four large organizations around the world this week, including a hospital group in Europe that has been battling the COVID-19 pandemic. Full Article
war Ransomware Slams Healthcare, Logistics, Energy Firms By www.databreachtoday.asia Published On :: Attacks Traced to Gangs Wielding Nefilim, Snake StrainsRansomware attacks hit at least four large organizations around the world this week, including a hospital group in Europe that has been battling the COVID-19 pandemic. Full Article
war [Podcast] Winning the Car Wars By euobserver.com Published On :: Thu, 07 May 2020 07:13:42 +0200 Lockdowns in response to the coronavirus mean quieter cities, clearer skies and easier breathing. For many city dwellers the lack of cars has been a revelation amid the suffering and loss inflicted by Covid-19. Full Article
war [Ticker] UK enters deepest recession on record, bank warns By euobserver.com Published On :: Thu, 07 May 2020 13:45:40 +0200 The Bank of England on Thursday warned that the UK economy is heading towards its deepest recession on record, as the British economy will shrink by 14 percent this year. The Covid-19 pandemic was "dramatically reducing jobs and incomes in the UK", it said. Bank governor Andrew Bailey told the BBC there would be no quick return to normality. The EU has forecast an eight-percent contraction for the UK. Full Article
war UK Awards First Guaranteed Power Price Contracts to Biomass, Offshore Wind Projects By feedproxy.google.com Published On :: 2014-04-24T11:58:00Z Drax Group Plc, Dong Energy A/S and SSE Plc will get guaranteed power prices for U.K. biomass and offshore wind plants, the first renewable energy projects to benefit from a new aid program. Full Article Wind Power
war Where Coal Was King, Pope's Climate Warning Faces a Tricky Sell By feedproxy.google.com Published On :: 2015-06-18T13:00:00Z In West Virginia, where workers have harvested coal seams for centuries, Pope Francis’ new warning about the risks of fossil fuels will find skepticism even among the faithful. Full Article Storage Energy Efficiency Wind Power Solar
war What’s Next? EU, US and Colombia Show They’re Moving Forward with the Paris Agreement By feedproxy.google.com Published On :: 2016-05-13T12:10:00Z Less than two weeks after 175 nations signed the pivotal Paris Agreement on climate change, a question lingers: What happens now? Full Article Hydropower Baseload Storage Bioenergy Wind Power Solar Geothermal
war Field Day: AI Startup Cultivates Robo Tractors for ‘Swarm Farming’ Disruption By blogs.nvidia.com Published On :: Thu, 23 Apr 2020 16:00:35 GMT Professional pyrotechnician Zack James is lighting his next fuse under the tractor market. The founder of Rabbit Tractors develops autonomous farm robots intended for multiple tasks and to be scaled up in number as needed, challenging traditional tractors. Based in northwest Indiana, Rabbit Tractors is a so-called swarm farming startup among a field of like-minded Read article > The post Field Day: AI Startup Cultivates Robo Tractors for ‘Swarm Farming’ Disruption appeared first on The Official NVIDIA Blog. Full Article
war Riding a Cloud: NVIDIA Acquires Network-Software Trailblazer Cumulus By blogs.nvidia.com Published On :: Mon, 04 May 2020 13:00:00 GMT Cloud data centers are evolving to an architecture that is accelerated, disaggregated and software-defined to meet the exponential growth in AI and high performance computing. To build these modern data centers, HPC and networking hardware and software must go hand in hand. NVIDIA provides the leading accelerated computing platform. Mellanox is the high-performance networking leader, Read article > The post Riding a Cloud: NVIDIA Acquires Network-Software Trailblazer Cumulus appeared first on The Official NVIDIA Blog. Full Article
war Riding a Cloud: NVIDIA Acquires Network-Software Trailblazer Cumulus By feedproxy.google.com Published On :: Mon, 04 May 2020 13:00:52 +0000 Cloud data centers are evolving to an architecture that is accelerated, disaggregated and software-defined to meet the exponential growth in AI and high performance computing. To build these modern data centers, HPC and networking hardware and software must go hand in hand. NVIDIA provides the leading accelerated computing platform. Mellanox is the high-performance networking leader, Read article > The post Riding a Cloud: NVIDIA Acquires Network-Software Trailblazer Cumulus appeared first on The Official NVIDIA Blog. Full Article Networking Artificial Intelligence High Performance Computing
war EWC 50 Spotlight: Educators from Nine Nations Explore the Multiple Histories of the Pacific War By feedproxy.google.com Published On :: Thu, 07 Apr 2011 08:35:20 +0000 EWC 50 Spotlight: Educators from Nine Nations Explore the Multiple Histories of the Pacific War Workshop participants show appreciation for the presentation by civilian survivors of the Pacific War. Different ‘voices’ and multiple perspectives shed new light on the impact World War II had on the Pacific, when 75 college professors from nine nations participated in workshops as part of the East-West Center’s Asian Studies Development Program (ASDP). Full Article
war Spotlight on Education: New Environmental Stewardship Program Cultivates Action-oriented Leaders By feedproxy.google.com Published On :: Thu, 07 Apr 2011 08:35:30 +0000 Spotlight on Education: New Environmental Stewardship Program Cultivates Action-oriented Leaders USIE participants with Representative Mazie Hirono (D-HI) on Capitol Hill Full Article
war EWC Receives Green Business Award By feedproxy.google.com Published On :: Thu, 23 Jun 2011 10:24:30 +0000 EWC Receives Green Business Award Full Article
war EWC Honors Governor Ariyoshi with Asia Pacific Community Building Award By feedproxy.google.com Published On :: Thu, 04 Oct 2012 20:04:44 +0000 Governor and Mrs. Ariyoshi with Rick Tsujimura, EWC Board of Governors' Chairman, at the EWC award banquet.The East-West Center honored the Honorable George R. Ariyoshi, former Governor of the State of Hawai'i, with the presentation of the Asia Pacific Community Building Award for his dedication to strengthening the bonds of understanding among the peoples and nations of Asia, the Pacific, and the United States. The Award recognizes outstanding leaders whose vision and professional and personal accomplishments exemplify the mission of the East-West Center. Full Article
war EWC Receives Second Green Business Award By feedproxy.google.com Published On :: Wed, 22 Jul 2015 00:16:47 +0000 HONOLULU (July 21, 2015) -- The East-West Center has received a second Green Business Award from the state of Hawai‘i, which recognizes organizations for outstanding effort in improving their environmental footprint. In 2011, the Center became the first educational institution to receive the award. Full Article
war EWC Student Wins Award in Malay Language Speech Championship By feedproxy.google.com Published On :: Tue, 03 Nov 2015 01:37:42 +0000 Honolulu (October 12, 2015) – Wyatt Gordon, a current EWC degree fellow in in urban and regional planning, recently returned from Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, where he competed in Pidato Antarabangsa Bahasa Melayu , or International Malay Language Speech Championship. The first American to ever to reach the final round of this competition since it was started nearly a decade ago, he took third place overall and won a prize of $3,000 after delivering a speech in Malay on how he found his heritage through language. The speech contest was broadcast live in front of a studio audience of several thousand people, including the Prime Minister, and was viewed by a television audience of several million viewers across Southeast Asia. Full Article
war New EU laws for marketing AIFs and UCITS: One step forward, one step back? By www.eversheds.com Published On :: 2018-03-15 On 12 March 2018, the European Commission (the “Commission”) published legislative proposals for new rules on marketing AIFs and UCITS comprising: a Directive on the cross-border distribution of collective investment funds (COM(2018) 92... Full Article
war Warm Citrus Cider (Southern Living) By www.food.com Published On :: Thu, 07 May 2020 21:11:11 +0000 From Nov 2009 Southern Living magazine. This easy cider gets its tangy twist from fresh citrus. -- posted by Bren in LR Full Article
war Coronavirus CARES Act loans and related programs come with increased oversight and risk of False Claims Act prosecution: Borrowers beware US By www.eversheds.com Published On :: 2020-05-04 ... Full Article
war Eversheds Sutherland (International) is Legal Practice of the Year at Northern Lights Awards By www.eversheds.com Published On :: 2017-03-21 Eversheds Sutherland (International) has been named ‘Legal Practice of the Year’ at the Northern Lights Awards, Manchester. The awards are designed to highlight collaboration between companies and within companies in the Northern Powerh... Full Article
war Top-grosser ‘Better Days’ walks away with 8 awards By www.shanghaidaily.com Published On :: Thu, 07 May 2020 00:05:00 +0800 “BETTER Days” became the biggest winner by taking home eight awards out of 12 nominations, including the best film, best director, and best actress, at the 39th Hong Kong Film Awards yesterday. Due to Full Article Nation
war Trump warned against use of tariffs as weapons By www.shanghaidaily.com Published On :: Thu, 07 May 2020 00:05:00 +0800 China said tariffs should not be used as a weapon after US President Donald Trump threatened to impose more of them for China’s handling of the novel coronavirus. Full Article Nation
war EWC Education Programs Awarded $870K in Grants By feedproxy.google.com Published On :: Thu, 07 Apr 2011 08:32:06 +0000 EWC Education Programs Awarded $870K in Grants HONOLULU (October 13, 2010) -- East-West Center education programs have been awarded three grants totaling $869,704. The recent awards are: $239,594 from the U.S. Department of State to support the Study of the U.S. Institute for Student Leaders on Global Environmental Issues . The institute aims to develop young leaders with the ability to build and maintain resilient communities in light of global environmental challenges. Through field study in Hawai‘i and Washington D.C., participants gain a better understanding of sustainability and create a clear action plan addressing an environmental concern upon their return home. Full Article
war EWC Receives Grants for Teacher Workshops on Pacific War Legacies By feedproxy.google.com Published On :: Thu, 07 Apr 2011 08:32:07 +0000 National Endowment for the Humanities Awards $360K to EWC for Teacher Workshops on Pacific War Legacies HONOLULU (October 7, 2010) – The East-West Center’s AsiaPacificEd Program for Schools has been awarded two grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) for teacher professional development programs focusing on legacies of World War II in the Pacific. The first grant, an $180,900 award, is to conduct a three-week institute on “Southeast Asia: At the Crossroads of World War II.” The second grant, an $180,000 award, is for an NEH Landmarks of American History and Culture workshop titled “Pearl Harbor: History and Memory Across Asia and the Pacific.” Both workshops are conducted in Honolulu, Hawai‘i, where the Center’s main campus is located. Full Article
war UN Democracy Fund Awards East-West Center $225K to Help Strengthen Democracy in Pakistan By feedproxy.google.com Published On :: Thu, 07 Apr 2011 08:32:17 +0000 UN Democracy Fund Awards East-West Center $225K to Help Strengthen Democracy in Pakistan HONOLULU (Feb. 18, 2010) – The East-West Center has received a grant of $225,000 from the United Nations Democracy Fund to help strengthen Pakistan’s recently restored democracy. The project will reinforce electoral and parliamentary processes and enhance civil society’s capacity to promote accountability and transparency. “Pakistan is a Muslim country of 164 million people, and a nuclear power,” said project leader Shabbir Cheema, Director of the East-West Center’s Asia-Pacific Governance and Democracy Initiative. “But a weak Parliament, lack of trust in electoral processes and weak civil society institutions have constrained the deepening and consolidation of democracy in the country.” Full Article
war NSF Awards East-West Center $1.4 Million to Study Development’s Role in Avian Flu Transmission By feedproxy.google.com Published On :: Thu, 07 Apr 2011 08:32:22 +0000 NSF Awards East-West Center $1.4 Million to Study Development’s Role in Avian Flu Transmission HONOLULU (Sep. 1) – The East-West Center (EWC) was awarded a three-year grant for $1,398,380 from the National Science Foundation (NSF) to investigate the impact of development-based environmental change on avian flu transmission. The project, “CNH: Coupled Natural-Human Systems and Emerging Infectious Diseases," will examine the interaction of urbanization, agricultural change, and habitat alteration with outbreaks of highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI) in poultry in Vietnam. Full Article
war East-West Center Awarded Nearly $95,000 for Japan-U.S. Journalists Exchange Program By feedproxy.google.com Published On :: Thu, 07 Apr 2011 08:32:27 +0000 East-West Center Awarded Nearly $95,000 for Japan-U.S. Journalists Exchange Program HONOLULU (June 10) – The East-West Center has received a two-year grant of $94,747 from the Japan Foundation Center for Global Partnership to support the Japan-United States Journalist Exchange . This 12-day exchange program, co-sponsored by the East-West Center and Nihon Shinbun Kyokai (NSK), sends six to seven Japanese journalists to the United States and an equal number of U.S. journalists to Japan to broaden the journalists’ knowledge of the relationship and challenges faced between the two countries. Full Article
war EWC Awarded $414,952 from National Institutes of Health to Study Family Change in Japan By feedproxy.google.com Published On :: Thu, 07 Apr 2011 08:32:33 +0000 East-West Center Awarded $414,952 from National Institutes of Health to Study Family Change in Japan HONOLULU (Dec. 11, 2008) – The East-West Center (EWC) received a grant of $414,952 from the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health & Human Development to support on-going research in Japan on family change. The multi-year study, “Innovations in Early Life Course Transitions,” focuses on the interplay of structural societal change, individual behavior and attitudes, and the emergence of an altered family institution in Japanese society. Full Article
war East-West Center Awarded $992,000 for Timor-Leste and South Pacific Scholarship Programs By feedproxy.google.com Published On :: Thu, 07 Apr 2011 08:32:35 +0000 East-West Center Awarded $992,000 for Timor-Leste and South Pacific Scholarship Programs HONOLULU (Nov. 18) -- The East-West Center (EWC) received two grants of $496,000 from the U.S. Department of State’s Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs to support the U.S.- Timor-Leste (USTL) and U.S.- South Pacific (USSP) Scholarship Programs. These programs aim to develop a corps of leaders who will contribute to political, economic, and social development in their home countries and strengthen relations with the United States. Full Article
war East-West Center Awarded $150,000 for Teachers’ Workshop on Pearl Harbor By feedproxy.google.com Published On :: Thu, 07 Apr 2011 08:32:35 +0000 East-West Center Awarded $150,000 for Teachers’ Workshop on Pearl Harbor HONOLULU (Dec. 5) -- The East-West Center’s AsiaPacificEd Program for Schools has been awarded a $150,000 “Landmarks of American History and Culture” grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) to conduct teachers workshops on “ Pearl Harbor: History, Memory, and Memorial .” These workshops are co-sponsored by the Arizona Memorial Museum Association, the National Park Service, and the Japan American Society and will be held at the East-West Center during the summer of 2009. This is the fifth Landmarks grant that NEH has awarded to the East-West Center for the Pearl Harbor workshops. Full Article
war EWC Awarded $350,000 for New Environmental Stewardship Institute By feedproxy.google.com Published On :: Thu, 07 Apr 2011 08:32:39 +0000 EWC Awarded $350,000 for New Environmental Stewardship Institute HONOLULU (September 17) The East-West Center (EWC) received a grant of $350,000 from the U.S. Department of State to support a new six-week institute on environmental stewardship for undergraduate students from Southeast Asia. The EWC, working in partnership with more than 20 organizations including the University of Hawaii’s Environmental Studies Program, Stanford University’s Woods Institute for the Environment, and the Nature Conservancy, will host and facilitate this program in May-June 2009 for approximately 20 students from non-traditional and underserved groups in the region. Full Article
war NASA Awards East-West Center $826,000 To Assess Environmental Change In Se Asia By feedproxy.google.com Published On :: Thu, 07 Apr 2011 08:32:43 +0000 NASA Awards East-West Center $826,000 To Assess Environmental Change In Southeast Asia HONOLULU (June 16) – The East-West Center (EWC) was awarded a three-year contract from NASA for a projected total of $826,639 to determine the effects of the explosive expansion of rubber cultivation in Montane Mainland Southeast Asia (MMSEA) on regional water and carbon dynamics. "Hydrologic change within this region, which comprises approximately half of Cambodia, Laos, Burma, Thailand, Vietnam and China’s Yunnan Province, could have serious consequences for the approximately 200 million inhabitants of mainland Southeast Asia’s lowlands and for the climate of monsoon Asia,” according to Jefferson Fox , East-West Center Senior Fellow, and member of the team heading up the project. Full Article
war Asia Pacific Economic Forecast Revised Downward; Inflation Expected to Rise Sharply By feedproxy.google.com Published On :: Thu, 07 Apr 2011 08:32:44 +0000 Asia Pacific Economic Forecast Revised Downward; Inflation Expected to Rise Sharply SINGAPORE (May 30) -- Inflation in the Asia Pacific is set to rise sharply this year in the face of increased oil and commodity prices, contributing to a substantial downward revision in the overall economic growth forecast for the region, according to a report released today by the Pacific Economic Cooperation Council (PECC). Full Article
war EWC Awarded $300,000 Grant for U.S.- Indonesian Muslim Teacher Exchange Program By feedproxy.google.com Published On :: Thu, 07 Apr 2011 08:33:00 +0000 EWC Awarded $300,000 Grant for U.S.- Indonesian Muslim Teacher Exchange Program Full Article
war PTC Honors Jussawalla with Named Award By feedproxy.google.com Published On :: Thu, 07 Apr 2011 08:33:06 +0000 PTC Honors Jussawalla with Named Award HONOLULU (April 16) – Meheroo Jussawalla, East-West Center senior fellow emerita, was recently honored by the Honolulu-based Pacific Telecommunications Council (PTC). The international non-government group has created a new award in her name, the Meheroo Jussawalla Research Paper Prize. Full Article
war Revealing and Rewarding Travel Tale: One Woman’s Journey to Freedom By feedproxy.google.com Published On :: Thu, 07 Apr 2011 08:33:07 +0000 Revealing and Rewarding Travel Tale: One Woman’s Journey to Freedom HONOLULU (April 5) — East-West Center Senior Fellow Emerita Meheroo Jussawalla’s recently published book, On Six Dollars to America: A Tale of Adventure, Courage and Reward (Paperback, $13.99, Amazon.com) takes the reader on a fascinating journey. It is a trip that not only chronicles Jussawalla’s passage from her birthplace in India to the United States, but also an excursion through the mind of a captivating individual. Full Article
war U.S. Embassy in Pakistan Awards East-West Center $1.09 Million for Journalist Exchange Programs By feedproxy.google.com Published On :: Wed, 17 Aug 2011 01:42:30 +0000 HONOLULU (Aug. 15, 2011) – The Public Affairs Section of the U.S. Embassy in Islamabad, Pakistan, has awarded the East-West Center $1,087,762 over three years to continue and expand several training and exchange programs for journalists. The award will fund the continuation of the Center’s Pakistan-U.S. Journalists’ Exchange program, which was held for the first time in April this year, as well as funding participation by Pakistani journalists in the Center’s existing multinational Jefferson Fellowships and Senior Journalists Seminar programs. Under the overall theme of “Deepening Democracy through Media in Pakistan,” the objectives of the East-West Center project are to promote free, fair and responsible media in Pakistan to help the country cope with its political and developmental challenges and to bridge the gaps in understanding between the United States and Pakistan. Full Article
war EWC Awarded $970,000 for Timor-Leste and South Pacific Scholarship Programs By feedproxy.google.com Published On :: Sat, 07 Jan 2012 02:55:05 +0000 HONOLULU (Jan. 6, 2012) -- The East-West Center has received two grants totaling $970,000 from the U.S. Department of State’s Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs to support the U.S.- Timor-Leste and U.S.- South Pacific Scholarship Programs over a five year period. These programs aim to develop a corps of leaders who will contribute to political, economic and social development in their home countries and strengthen relations with the United States. “By investing in tertiary education through initiatives like these, the United States is helping to foster prosperity, good governance, the rule of law, journalistic freedom, and human rights in the Asia Pacific region,” said Terance Bigalke, EWC’s Director of Education. Full Article
war EWC Awarded $281,000 for New Japan Studies Fellowship Program By feedproxy.google.com Published On :: Thu, 19 Jan 2012 00:38:55 +0000 Applications Now Open for Research Fellowships in Washington, D.C. HONOLULU (Jan. 18, 2012) -- The East-West Center has received an initial grant of $93,858 from the Center for Global Partnership at the Japan Foundation – renewable over three years for a total of approximately $281,574 – to support the EWC’s new Japan Studies Fellowship Program. The program will provide three- or six-month research fellowships for scholars and analysts from the United States and Japan to conduct policy-relevant research on issues related to the U.S.-Japan partnership, including economic, diplomatic, politico-security, social, and international topics. Full Article
war East-West Center Awarded $173,000 to Study Communication of Climate Information in the Pacific By feedproxy.google.com Published On :: Fri, 12 Oct 2012 01:01:27 +0000 HONOLULU (Oct. 11, 2012) -- The East-West Center has been awarded $173,000 in funding to study how key climate information spreads across different sectors and countries in the Pacific islands region.With $148,000 in funding from the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and $25,000 from the Department of Interior’s Pacific Islands Climate Science Center, researchers will use the upcoming release of a major Pacific Islands Regional Climate Assessment report as springboard for collecting data to analyze the flow of climate and fresh water information in Hawai‘i and the U.S.-affiliated Pacific islands.By tracking information flows, key hubs and isolated groups using network analysis and statistical methods, the researchers plan to map out gaps in the communication and flow of climate information, allowing future projects to focus on areas with less active research and outreach. Full Article
