Wednesday, August 31, 2022
What we do and how we can help you - The Ethics Centre
What we do and how we can help you - The Ethics Centre: "Articles, videos, research and thought leadership papers that illuminate ethics and help you tackle issues that matter."
Monday, August 29, 2022
What is the metaverse--and what does it mean for business? | McKinsey
What is the metaverse--and what does it mean for business? | McKinsey:"I believe it’s a convergence of our physical and digital lives. It’s our digital lifestyles, which we’ve been living on phones or computers, slowly catching up to our physical lives in some way, so that full convergence. It is enabled by many different technologies, like AR [augmented reality] and VR [virtual reality], which are the ones that most people tend to think about. But they’re not the only entry points. There’s also blockchain, which is a big component, there’s 5G, there’s edge computing, and many, many other technologies."
The Allegory of the Alien Invasion | Issue 106 | Philosophy Now
The Allegory of the Alien Invasion | Issue 106 | Philosophy Now: "Just because we don’t have the capacity to speak their language, and aren’t as intelligent and powerful as they are, doesn’t mean that it’s right for them to do whatever they want with us. It seems one thing humans have that they don’t have is an understanding and valuing of moral behavior. But, I guess, truth be told, when we were dominant, we didn’t have that either."
Sunday, August 28, 2022
2022 Religious Liberty Summit U.S. Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito
2022 Religious Liberty Summit U.S. Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito: "Who is that man? That memory has stuck in my mind as a harbinger of what may lie ahead for our culture. And the problem that looms is not just indifference to religion, it's not just ignorance about religion. There's also growing hostility to religion, or at least the traditional religious beliefs that are contrary to the new moral code that is ascendant in some sectors."
Cybercrime To Cost The World $10.5 Trillion Annually By 2025
Cybercrime To Cost The World $10.5 Trillion Annually By 2025: "Cybersecurity Ventures expects global cybercrime costs to grow by 15 percent per year over the next five years, reaching $10.5 trillion USD annually by 2025, up from $3 trillion USD in 2015. This represents the greatest transfer of economic wealth in history, risks the incentives for innovation and investment, is exponentially larger than the damage inflicted from natural disasters in a year, and will be more profitable than the global trade of all major illegal drugs combined."
166 Cybersecurity Statistics and Trends [updated 2022]
166 Cybersecurity Statistics and Trends [updated 2022]: "To give you a better idea of the current state of overall security, we’ve compiled more than 160 cybersecurity statistics for 2022. This will help show the prevalence and need for cybersecurity in all facets of business."
Cybersecurity Barometer: Cybercrime’s impact on privacy and security
Cybersecurity Barometer: Cybercrime’s impact on privacy and security: 'Study shows the majority of Americans fear the misuse of their personal data supplied to websites, and view cybercrime as a threat to their country"
Saturday, August 27, 2022
Cybersecurity in banking: A risk-based approach | McKinsey
Cybersecurity in banking: A risk-based approach | McKinsey: "To manage technology risk and cyber risk effectively, organizations must lay out an objective risk appetite framework that supports business decisions on risk and uses objective metrics and reporting to achieve alignment with the risk appetite."
Friday, August 26, 2022
Relief for Foreign Tax Paid 2022 (HS263) - GOV.UK
Relief for Foreign Tax Paid 2022 (HS263) - GOV.UK: "If you’ve paid foreign tax on income received or capital gains made that are also taxable in the UK, you may be able to claim relief for the foreign tax"
Thursday, August 25, 2022
Wednesday, August 24, 2022
Oracle’s BlueKai tracks you across the web
Oracle’s BlueKai tracks you across the web - TechCrunch: "Even when the data stays where it’s intended, Cyphers said these vast databases enable “manipulative advertising for things like political issues or exploitative services, and it allows marketers to tailor their messages to specific vulnerable populations,” he said."
How to help future generations survive climate change, pandemics, or AI - Vox
How to help future generations survive climate change, pandemics, or AI - Vox: "And if we think human life in the future might be full of awesome things like happiness and knowledge and beauty — or even if we think there’s just a decent chance it could be more good than bad — then thinking about how to increase the odds of such a future for later generations is really worth our time."
Sunday, August 21, 2022
Saturday, August 20, 2022
Breakthrough over potentially harmful chemicals found in most homes - BBC News
Breakthrough over potentially harmful chemicals found in most homes - BBC News
https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-62561756
https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-62561756
Friday, August 19, 2022
Thursday, August 18, 2022
Scientists Develop New Material to Clean Up Forever Chemicals - EcoWatch
Scientists Develop New Material to Clean Up Forever Chemicals - EcoWatch: "This [patented] sustainable PFAS clean-up system could scale for commercial use..."
Saturday, August 13, 2022
Google News - The Reluctant Prophet of Effective Altruism
Google News - The Reluctant Prophet of Effective Altruism
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2022/08/15/the-reluctant-prophet-of-effective-altruism
https://news.google.com/articles/CAIiEIpbU3KZaxu_7RfMCick2p8qGQgEKhAIACoHCAowjMqjCjCJhZwBMKHUywM?uo=CAUiANIBAA&hl=en-US&gl=US&ceid=US%3Aen
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2022/08/15/the-reluctant-prophet-of-effective-altruism
https://news.google.com/articles/CAIiEIpbU3KZaxu_7RfMCick2p8qGQgEKhAIACoHCAowjMqjCjCJhZwBMKHUywM?uo=CAUiANIBAA&hl=en-US&gl=US&ceid=US%3Aen
Massive Losses Define Epidemic of ‘Pig Butchering’ – Krebs on Security
Massive Losses Define Epidemic of 'Pig Butchering' – Krebs on Security
https://krebsonsecurity.com/2022/07/massive-losses-define-epidemic-of-pig-butchering/
https://krebsonsecurity.com/2022/07/massive-losses-define-epidemic-of-pig-butchering/
Tuesday, August 9, 2022
Gratitude Day Sept 21, 2022
Join Us - Gratitude Revealed: "The mission of World Gratitude Day is to create a global experience with millions of people simultaneously which cultivates hope, comfort, and inspires a true shift in consciousness."
Monday, August 8, 2022
Dual use of artificial-intelligence-powered drug discovery | Nature Machine Intelligence
Dual use of artificial-intelligence-powered drug discovery | Nature Machine Intelligence: "An international security conference explored how artificial intelligence (AI) technologies for drug discovery could be misused for de novo design of biochemical weapons."
Proton pump inhibitors reduce phlebotomy burden in patients with ...: Ingenta Connect
Proton pump inhibitors reduce phlebotomy burden in patients with ...: Ingenta Connect: A 2020 meta study shows "PPIs can be used as an adjuvant therapy to reduce phlebotomy burden in patients with HFE-related hemochromatosis."
Sunday, August 7, 2022
About Langdon Winner
About Langon Winner: "Unfortunately, a great many of the technical devices and systems that surround us are designed, built and deployed in flagrant disregard of humane, ecologically sound principles. To an astonishing degree, today's technological society is based upon a collection of bad habits inherited from a reckless industrial past." Agreed!
Friday, August 5, 2022
Coventry motorist fined for not displaying disabled badge
Coventry motorist fined for not displaying disabled badge - despite it being on his windscreen - https://www.coventrytelegraph.net/news/coventry-news/coventry-motorist-fined-not-displaying-24641027
Thursday, August 4, 2022
The new State Pension: Living and working overseas - GOV.UK
The new State Pension: Living and working overseas - GOV.UK: "Your UK State Pension will be based on your UK National Insurance record. You need 10 years of UK National Insurance contributions to be eligible for the new State Pension."
Wednesday, August 3, 2022
Will anti-vaccine activism in the USA reverse global goals? | Nature Reviews Immunology
Will anti-vaccine activism in the USA reverse global goals? | Nature Reviews Immunology
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41577-022-00770-9
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41577-022-00770-9
Supporting employees with caring responsibilities
Supporting employees with caring responsibilities | Family-friendly policies | Good practice manual | Tools | XpertHR.co.uk: "Employers that support carers can help them to balance their work and caring commitments, which is likely to have a positive effect on the bottom line."
Tuesday, August 2, 2022
Saturday, July 30, 2022
Volunteer as a conference advocate | Haemochromatosis UK
Volunteer as a conference advocate | Haemochromatosis UK: "We’re seeking enthusiastic and skilled volunteers with an interest in haemochromatosis to help represent Hemochromatosis UK at national conferences and events."
Thursday, July 28, 2022
The men who leave their spouses when they have a life-threatening illness | Women | The Guardian
The men who leave their spouses when they have a life-threatening illness | Women | The Guardian: "When relationships are hit by serious illness, such as cancer, it can bring existing gender inequalities shockingly to the surface."
Can I Start Spousal Benefits and Claim My Own Social Security Later?
Can I Start Spousal Benefits and Claim My Own Social Security Later?: you can collect spousal benefits and wait until you are 70 to collect your own Social Security retirement benefit if both of the following are true:
You were born before Jan. 2, 1954.
Your spouse is collecting his or her own Social Security retirement benefit.
Wednesday, July 27, 2022
Critical Industries Failing at IIoT/OT Security - Infosecurity Magazine
Critical Industries Failing at IIoT/OT Security - Infosecurity Magazine: "Most critical services companies are struggling to secure their industrial internet of things (IIoT)/operational technology (OT) systems and acknowledge the need to invest more heavily in these areas, said a report from security company Barracuda Networks this week."
Emergency Social Protection responses to Covid-19 around the world | Privacy International
Emergency Social Protection responses to Covid-19 around the world | Privacy International: "Emergency welfare responses to the Covid-19 crisis have seen governments increasingly relying on automated and opaque eligibility processes and forsaking privacy considerations and inclusion."
Deceased being fined by HMRC for overdue tax return | Money | The Guardian
My wife died but she is being fined by HMRC for overdue tax return | Money | The Guardian: "We welcome letters but cannot answer individually. Email us at consumer.champions@theguardian.com or write to Consumer Champions, Money, the Guardian, 90 York Way, London N1 9GU."
NHS demand
NHS
University Hospitals
Coventry and Warwickshire
NHS Trust
UHCW NHS Trust
Overseas & PP Team
University Office Suite, 1st Floor
Clifford Bridge Road
Walsgrave, Coventry
CV2 2DX
Direct Line: 02476 965016
www.uhcw.nhs.uk
23 July 2022
Mr Stephen Cobb
6 Ufton Croft
Coventry
E-mail: uhc-tr.overseaspatients@nhs.net
5 THJ
Dear Mr Stephen Cobb
Your Reference: AA1952047
Your NHS treatment costs - please supply evidence by 02/08/2022
As a potential chargeable patient/visitor to the United Kingdom, you may need to pay for your NHS treatment received at
University Hospital Coventry Warwickshire/St Cross Hospital, Rugby. The NHS is not free to everyone and chargeable
patientsloverseas visitors must be charged for specified services, including NHS hospital services, under the National Health
Service (Charges to Overseas Visitors) Regulations 2015. Payment goes towards the NHS doctors and nurses who provide
your care.
The hospital requires evidence to determine if you need to pay for your treatment. Visitors who are ordinarily resident(2] in the
UK or who fall within certain exemption categories will not need to pay.
It is your responsibility to prove that you are entitled to free NHS treatment.
To avoid payment, you need to provide evidence that you are either ordinarily resident in the UK or fall within an exemption
category.
What you need to do:
1. Send evidence that you are ordinarily resident in the UK or fall within an exemption category. The copies of
the documents you need to provide are listed on the reverse of this letter. These copies of documents will be used
to determine your status (we may request original documents if necessary).
2. Send copies of your documents by post marked as Private and Confidential and quoting your reference as
AA1952047.
Overseas and Private Patients Team, University Hospital Coventry & Warwickshire NHs Trust, University
Office Suite, 1st Floor, Clifford Bridge Road, Coventry, CV2 2DX
For any queries please E-mail: uhc-tr.overseaspatients@nhs.net
3. We need to receive this by:
02 August 2022
The National Health Service Act 2006 and the National Health Service (Charges to Overseas Visitors) Regulations 2017 set
out which visitors are required to pay for NHS treatment.
2 This means that you are living in the UK on a lawful, voluntary and properly settled basis as part of the regular order of your
life for the time being.
f you do not provide satisfactory evidence to support your claim, you will be liable for the cost of any treatment provided to you.
You will be issued with an invoice for the costs of any treatment already provided to you and you will be required to pay the full cost
of any future NHS hospital treatment where possible. (Urgent treatment will never be withheld.)
If you would like to discuss your claim or to arrange an appointment please contact us by calling 02476 965 016 between 09:00 and 17:00,
Monday to Saturday.
Yours sincerely,
Overseas and Private Patients Team
Lens & prescription | Firmoo.co.uk
Lens & prescription | Firmoo.co.uk: (Sunglasses can only be used for distance,not for reading,bifocal or progressive.)
Tuesday, July 26, 2022
Lockdown drinking increase could cause 25,000 excess deaths in England
Lockdown drinking increase could cause 25,000 excess deaths in England
https://www.theguardian.com/society/2022/jul/26/lockdown-drinking-increase-could-cause-25000-excess-deaths-in-england?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other
https://www.theguardian.com/society/2022/jul/26/lockdown-drinking-increase-could-cause-25000-excess-deaths-in-england?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other
Monday, July 25, 2022
Potential fabrication research images re: Alzheimer's
Potential fabrication Science%20%7C%20AAAS: "IN HIS WHISTLEBLOWER REPORT to NIH about Lesné’s research, Schrag made its scope and stakes clear: “[This] dossier is a fraction of the anomalies easily visible on review of the publicly accessible data,” he wrote. The suspect work “not only represents a substantial investment in [NIH] research support, but has been cited … thousands of times and thus has the potential to mislead an entire field of research.”"
Sunday, July 24, 2022
Libertarian Communist critique of Dawn
%Libertarian Communist critique of Dawn: "Despite these criticisms, the one important point about this book is its advocacy of oscillation. All living things have a pulse. They live and they die, wake and sleep, breathe in and out in ways driven by the changing seasons and the many other periodicities of our life-friendly, earth-sun-moon orbital system."
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