ICT Pulse: Niel, thank you again for taking the time to share your insights with us. To start, give us a quick recap of what have been the most prevalent types of incidents in the Barbados and/or in the wider Caribbean region over the past year or so?
Niel Harper: Over the past year, there has been a substantive increase in ransomware attacks in Barbados and across the Caribbean. This is pretty much in line with the global trend, where we saw massive ransomware attacks such as NotPetya and WannaCry that impacted over 500,000 organizations and resulted in damages and losses in excess of USD$400 million. Barbados and the rest of the Caribbean were not spared from the wrath of these attacks.
ICTP: Has the threat landscape changed over the past year? Are there any particular areas of concern that you have for Caribbean organizations, or the region as a whole?
NH: Yes, most definitely the threat landscape has changed over the last year. Firstly, there has been a shift towards attacks on the underlying Internet infrastructure. Hence, Caribbean service providers need to implement protections in their networks to address core routing and DNS security, among others. Additionally, we are seeing hackers using social media platforms as an attack vector, and such attacks are routinely compromising mobile phones. Last but perhaps most significant, state-sponsored threat actors have become more and more active. We are seeing increasing attacks against critical infrastructure and supply chains. For example, cyberwar actors will seek to attack targets that result in maximum disruption, economic upheaval, and even public safety issues (e.g. airports, public transit, power grids, nuclear facilities, smart cities, etc.). There will be continued attacks targeting democratic processes such as electronic voting machines, online voter registration, party or politician websites, and other such platforms. Sadly, Caribbean (and global) enterprises will get caught up in state-led or state-sponsored attacks, and with far-reaching economic impacts.
ICTP: Over the past year, ransomware incidents still appeared to be occurring across the region. Are they still as huge a threat?
NH: As stated in my earlier comment, ransomware is most definitely still a threat, and there are a couple of reasons for this. For one, there are numerous techniques available to hackers for initiating ransomware attacks such as spam, phishing, rootkits on legitimate website, traffic redirection, and others. Ransomware also remains a lucrative business for hackers. There's also no shortage of targets for ransomware attackers, specifically when you consider that many healthcare providers, government agencies and educational institutions simply don't have the resources to adequately respond to cyber threats.
ICTP: Bitcoin (cryptocurrencies) and blockchain are concepts of which mass consumers are becoming increasingly aware. Are you excited or concerned about these technologies?
NH: I am both excited and concerned about blockchain and cryptocurrencies. Blockchain provides numerous options and possibilities for changing how we work, communicate and do business. As adoption of both technologies skyrockets across the globe and throughout the Caribbean, I expect that there will be a corresponding increase in attacks. More specifically, these attacks will be mostly focused on cryptocurrency marketplaces and end user applications such as crypto wallets and crypto trading apps. Early in 2018, Japanese crypto exchange Coincheck was hacked and lost USD$500 million in assets due to poor security mechanisms in their hot wallets. We're also seeing crypto mining malware which essentially compromises PCs and laptops and uses their resources to mine cryptocurrencies. A consequence of these attacks will be increased regulation of cryptocurrencies by governments, and there is the potential for this to stifle innovation and the network benefits of blockchaintechnologies.
ICTP: Towards the end of 2017, we became aware of some new threats: Meltdown and Spectre, which seem to be shaking the computing and tech industry to its core. In layman's terms, can you briefly give us a sense of what Meltdown and Spectre are about, what harm they do, and what steps (if any) we can take to better protect ourselves?
NH: Meltdown and Spectre exploit critical vulnerabilities in system processors. These hardware-based vulnerabilities allow programs to steal data that is being processed on the computer. While programs are typically not permitted to read data from other programs, a malicious program can exploit Meltdown and Spectre to obtain data stored in the memory of other running programs. Desktops, laptops, and cloud platforms are affected. More technically, every Intel processor which implements out-of-order execution is potentially affected, which is effectively every processor since 1995. There are patches against Meltdown for Linux, Windows, and OS X. There is also work being done to harden software against future Spectre exploits, as well as to patch software after exploitation through Spectre. Details for these solutions can be found on most all the security-focused web sites.
ICTP: After all of what we have discussed so far, are there still new and emerging threats of which we should be more aware?
NH: Yes, I think everyone should be aware about threats associated with the Internet of Things (IoT), connected vehicles, weaponization of AI, and cyber-physical attacks. For example, AI can make spearphishing attacks cheaper, faster and more effective, and also help attackers to design malware that is more stealth and harder to discover using traditional endpoint protection tools. Another example is that researchers – and hackers – are uncovering more vulnerabilities in the onboard systems of older airplanes, trains, ships, and other transport modes that render them vulnerable. I expect to see more attacks involving ransomware that hijacks these vital systems and threatens chaotic results if owners don't pay to regain control.
ICTP: Finally, what are the top three (3) things businesses should be doing this year, 2018, to improve theirICTP: network/IT security?
NH: One of the most important countermeasures against cyber threats is greater awareness. Governments need to engage various national stakeholder groups in developing awareness programs. Such programs should incorporate information on common attack techniques/vectors, recommendations on how to put better protection measures in place (including data protection), and best practices for improved online hygiene. Businesses are key stakeholders, and they should see themselves as playing an important role in building awareness both internally to their organizations and on the broader national scale.
All businesses need to to develop cybersecurity strategies, including in key areas such as risk assessment, vulnerability management, legal & regulatory compliance, and capacity building. They need to have the right people, process and technology in place to combat cyber threats. For SMEs who have challenges with resources, there are security companies like mine who are willing to work with them to develop flexible, cost-effective solutions for cybersecurity.
As it relates to improving users' control of their data and increasing accountability for data handlers, it is likely that legislation will be needed because corporations have not yet proven to be good data stewards. Hence, legislative instruments like the EU's General Data Protection Regulations (GDPR) are likely to be replicated across national jurisdictions. More specifically, the roles and responsibilities of those handling data should be clarified, penalties for misuse and abuse should be outlined, and mechanisms should be put in place to reward adequate data protection and implementation of security best practices. I would advise all Caribbean nations to look at implementing data protection legislation in the very near future.
Chief information security officers (CISOs) are increasingly in-demand, and the very good ones are expensive and difficult to lock down. As more and more organizations who are without CISOs suffer breaches, how should they go about bringing such talent into their businesses?
Could an on-demand virtual CISO (vCISO) be the appropriate solution for them? A vCISO is essentially a security practitioner who provides their advice and insights to an organization on an outsourced and ongoing basis, usually part-time and remotely.
But why would a business engage a vCISO when they can hire a full-time CISO? The answer to this is not a simple one. Firstly, a vCISO is not a good fit for all organizations. Secondly, highly-regarded, experienced CISOs are not easily found, generally stay in a role for 2-3 years, and most importantly, come with a salary that is prohibitive for small to medium enterprises (SMEs).
vCISOs usually cost around 40% – 60% of what you would pay a full-time CISO, and their services can be delivered on-demand. Their benefits usually way exceed their costs. Virtual CISOs are highly experienced, knowledgeable, don't have learning curve challenges, can integrate easily into a business, and won't see the need to tiptoe or play nice when it comes to corporate politics. With this approach, it is strictly about outcomes, and a top-tier vCISO will provide critical board and executive engagement, metrics, and high-level reporting.
While different vCISOs come with varying skillsets, most should be able to deal with a plethora of activities from strategic to tactical. They can develop your information risk assessment methodology. They can create a robust framework of policies, procedures, standards, and guidelines. They can help your organization come to terms with GDPR, PCI-DSS and other compliance issues. They can address outsourced vendor risks, for example around cloud computing and IoT services. They can also assist with recruitment and establishing a high-performance team, devising the security vision and strategy, leading the RFP process for security solutions, refining incident response processes, and implementing COBIT 5.0 and ISO/IEC 27000. They might also support the coaching and training needs of newly hired CISOs and conduct awareness training and reporting to the Board of Directors.
Virtual CISOs are best suited to startups and growing companies, and are an ideal approach for bolstering the already in-place management team or basically leveraged as a short-term solution. The best vCISOs must be good communicators – vertically and horizontally, and especially at the board level. They must be able to work with companies across diverse industries and with varying risk profiles and backgrounds. They must be capable of communicating clearly what business risks companies are exposed to as it relates to cybersecurity. An effective vCISO must also be adaptable and quickly learn about the unique business environment their customer operates in. And once these things are known, the vCISO needs to bring their knowledge and skills to bear in terms of aligning the cybersecurity strategy with the business' strategic objectives.
As they generally operate without budgets or responsibility for implementation, it is best if vCISOs are viewed as advisors and not as auditors or change managers. Cybersecurity is largely a business of relationship management, and traditional CISOs must win the hearts and minds of the executives and organizational leaders if they're to move the enterprise forward. vCISOs don't necessarily need to do this, as they are not visible and likely won't be around for the long-term.


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The 'CNI Catalan' helped the CDR to outwit the Civil Guard
The so-called Catalan CNI helped the members of the Committees for the Defense of the Republic (CDR) to detect if they were being subject to any type of police investigation. He
Courts. The 'Catalan CNI' commissioned the CDR to "assault the Parliament", according to the judge
Secessionism.Dimite the political 'boss' of the Mossos on the eve of the anniversary of 1-O
The so-called Catalan CNI helped the members of the Committees for the Defense of the Republic (CDR) to detect if they were being subject to any type of police investigation. The Information Security Center of Catalonia (Cesicat) provided counter-surveillance services for detainees, who at all times extreme security measures in their communications and were equipped with special material to cover their mobile devices and prevent them from being intervened.
The Civil Guard was alerted to the support of the Catalan CNI and restricted as much as possible the information it shared with the Mossos d'Esquadra about the so - called Operation Judas . As EL MUNDO revealed yesterday, the judge also links Cesicat with the plan to assault the Parliament during the day the judgment of the process was made public by the Supreme Court.
The Information Security Center of Catalonia (Cesicat), a body dependent on the Generalitat , provided logistical support to those arrested for terrorism while "entrusting" them with the assault on the Catalan Parliament on the day the Supreme Court ruling on the process
According to EL MUNDO sources of the investigation, the Cesicat carried out an operation consisting of spying, through the body of the Mossos d'Esquadra, the information of the police operations in progress registered in the coordination databases between the different bodies
So that if it became known to the Catalan regional police that the CDRs were being investigated, they would be automatically alerted to thwart the intervention of the material in their possession.
This strategy was brought to the attention of the Judicial Police in time, which led the Civil Guard to take extreme precautions when sharing the data of the so-called Judas operation .
In this way, the Mossos d'Esquadra was kept virtually out of the content of the investigations until the same moment in which the operation was carried out on September 23.
Under the tutelage and advice of the popularly known as CNI Catalan , the CDR adopted all kinds of measures to shield their communications. As evidenced by the police work, all of them used to communicate the Signal messaging network - with a more opaque encryption than networks like WhatsApp or Telegram - in order to circumvent the telephone interventions ordered by Judge Manuel García-Castellón .
The holder of the Court of Instruction 6 of the Hearing emphasizes that the defendants also had technical means such as "clandestine phones and walkie talkies " and that they resorted to "an agreed language" to mislead the Civil Guard. Likewise, sources of the investigation inform that the members of the ERT (Tactical Response Team) were confiscated during the entrances and searches in their homes numerous Faraday bags, made with a material that prevents the messages and communications issued with said Mobile devices are intercepted when they are inside.
In the documents in which he issued prison without bail for seven of those arrested in the Judas operation , the instructor focused on the role of the Catalan CNI , to which he attributes the direction of a "conspiracy plan against the State institutions that would consist in the assault and subsequent illegal occupation of the Parliament of Catalonia on the aforementioned "D-Day", with the ultimate goal of subverting the constitutional order. " This "plan" was "assumed and planned," the judge adds, by the detainees.
Together with the taking of the Parliament, the investigators consider that other objectives of the arrested were to carry out "a great sabotage" consisting of the blasting of a high-voltage or telecommunications tower in Catalonia between the anniversary of the illegal referendum of the 1st -O and the notification of the Supreme ruling -the one identified as «D-Day» -.
Not surprisingly, the detained CDRs, in pretrial detention for integrating a group of "terrorist character and for secessionist purposes", were located by inspecting several of these facilities in Barcelona.
The investigations highlight that, at a later stage, they planned to carry out an attack against a Civil Guard barracks house, which is why they had the plans of one of them. Not surprisingly, in the records the agents of the Armed Institute seized various sketches and plans of different state buildings.
Regarding the financing of the alleged terrorist group, the Civil Guard has proven that they paid for the explosive material with their own resources.
The Civil Guard accuses the 'CNI Catalan' of financing the CDR with large amounts of money to assault the Parliament
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The Hearing investigates another hidden 'CNI' of the Generalitat
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Pedro Sánchez defends the application of 155 with a functioning Government and announces that he will seek the support of the opposition
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Why sharks aren't as bad as 'Jaws' makes them out to be
By wpadmin | June 22, 2019
William Lytton, a 62-year-old neurologist from Scarsdale, vividly remembers the moment a great white shark bit down hard on his left thigh.
"It hurt pretty bad," he tells The Post. "I didn't realize at first what was happening. But then I looked down and saw all the blood and thought, 'Oh, geez, this isn't good. I'm in dire straits here.'"
It happened last August, just 10 feet off the shore of a small beach in Truro, Massachusetts.
Lytton had gone out for a quick swim in the Atlantic, as he often does during the summer, when the great white attacked him.
"It wasn't as dramatic as it seems in the movies," he says. "I didn't hear the 'Jaws' theme or anything." But it was terrifying, and he punched frantically at the shark's gills to free himself.
Lytton managed to escape, but the power of the shark's jaws ripped apart the tendons in his thigh.
"It didn't hit a main artery, which is probably why it didn't kill me," he says.
He swam to the shore without losing consciousness and after being airlifted to Boston, was placed in a medically induced coma for two days while undergoing a dozen surgeries.
"I was mostly worried that I might lose the leg," Lytton recalls. "I was grateful to be alive, especially given what happened to the other guy."
William Lytton punched a shark to free himself after being bitten in the waters off Truro, Mass.AP
The "other guy" was Arthur Medici, a 26-year-old surfer from Brazil who died after a great white attacked him off a Cape Cod beach just weeks later. It was the first fatal shark attack in Massachusetts in more than 80 years.
Stories like this might make some New Yorkers uneasy about getting back into the water again this summer, especially with recent shark activity that's gotten a little too close for comfort.
Just days before Memorial Day weekend, a great white shark named Cabot — he's been tagged with an electronic tracker and has around 12,000 followers on Twitter — was spotted swimming around Long Island. He wasn't the first great white to venture this close to the area, but he was one of the biggest.
'When you're in the water with them, you start to realize that sharks are basically just big dogs'
At 533 pounds and 9-foot-8-inches long, Cabot wasn't quite as big as the great white in Steven Spielberg's 1975 movie "Jaws" — he was roughly half the size of that fictional shark — but was still massive enough to rattle beachgoers.
Yet Gavin Naylor, the director of the Florida Museum of Natural History's shark-research program, says the danger isn't quite as imminent as it may seem.
"Great whites have long been entering Long Island Sound," he tells The Post. We just haven't been aware of them because most sharks aren't tagged. "I wouldn't worry about it," he says.
The odds are in our favor. In the US, there's a 1 in 265 million chance of being killed by a shark.
The risk is even lower if you live in New York state. Since 1837, there have been just 12 unprovoked shark attacks, plus 15 attacks in New Jersey. But the real reason we shouldn't be fearful of sharks isn't the fact that they attack so infrequently.
William McKeever
It's that their reputation as the so-called killers of the sea might be undeserved. Peter Benchley, the author of both the 1974 novel and original screenplay adaptation of "Jaws," noted during a lecture at the Smithsonian during the '90s that, if he was writing the same story today, he wouldn't be able to "portray the shark as a villain, especially not as a mindless omnivore that attacks boats and humans with reckless abandon."
Instead, he said, the shark "would have to be written as the victim."
This peculiar idea is what prompted William McKeever, an author and conservationist, to take a closer look at the ocean's most misunderstood creature. In his new book, "Emperors of the Deep" (HarperOne), out Tuesday, he explores how sharks have more to fear from us than we do of them.
"And unlike our fear of them," he writes, "their fear is justified."
'I was grateful to be alive, especially given what happened to the other guy'
Sharks, he argues, are less intent on making a meal of us than we've led ourselves to believe. "They're not interested in us," McKeever told The Post.
"We're not on the menu."
We don't have the nutrients they need. "Sharks eat mammals that provide lots of blubber, like seals and sea lions."
That blubber fuels a shark's liver, and our scrawny human bodies just don't have enough of that vital blubber to make us worth a meal.
So why do shark attacks on humans happen at all? Because sometimes mistakes happen, McKeever says. A shark biting into a human is like a human accidentally biting down on a birthday candle when eating a piece of cake.
"They're not happy about it," he says. "There's no actual nourishment there."
A bigger issue, according to McKeever, is the brutality inflicted on sharks at the hands of humans.
A crew member poses with shark fins onboard the Woen Dar 168, a Taiwanese longliner.© Paul Hilton/Greenpeace
"While sharks kill an average of four humans a year, humans kill 100 million sharks each year," he writes. (This is according to a 2013 study by the peer-reviewed journal Marine Policy.)
They're killed by accident (as a byproduct of the $ 40 billion tuna industry) and intentionally — sharks are regularly harvested for their meat, skin, fins, liver and cartilage — as well as for sport.
McKeever visited a shark-hunting tournament in Montauk and saw crowds of onlookers line up "like spectators in the Roman Colosseum to catch a glimpse of a shark's bloody, mangled body." He even saw one fisherman carve the heart out of a dying shark and bring the still-beating heart over for the crowd to see.
He went out on a hunt with a Montauk shark fisherman named Stan, a heavyset man in his 50s who was never without a cigarette or a cup filled with liquor, and watched him battle with a mako shark, pulling it onto the boat and severing the shark's spinal cord with a harpoon.
"Blood oozed out of the incision, and the shark twitched," McKeever writes, "its life slowly ebbing away."
McKeever admits that he grew up, like many of us did, with fears about man-eating sharks. "Every book I picked up portrayed them as killers," he writes. "A character would go swimming in a movie, and a shark would come along and take his leg off."
William McKeever (with the sharks he once feared) has written "Emperors of the Deep."
Our cultural anxiety about sharks dates back to 1916, when five people were attacked by a shark on the Jersey Shore and only one survived. It made national headlines, spawning the beginning of coast-to-coast shark paranoia and federal aid to "drive away all the ferocious man-eating sharks which have been making prey of bathers," according to a story in The Philadelphia Inquirer.
Ever since, many Americans don't feel comfortable even wading in an ocean without scanning the surface for signs of a dorsal fin.
While doing research for "Emperors of the Deep," McKeever decided to face his fears head-on. With the help of marine scientists and professional shark divers, he ventured into the natural habitats of four shark species — mako, tiger, hammerhead and great white.
"When you're in the water with them, you start to realize that sharks are basically just big dogs," McKeever says of his experiences. "They're like a German shepherd or a husky. You just have to be careful."
He also discovered that they have personalities with more depth and nuance than just mindless eating machines.
He learned of a secret spot in the Pacific, halfway between the Baja Peninsula and Hawaii, which has earned the nickname the White Shark Café.
"The visibility of the water out there is some of the best on the planet," McKeever says. "One theory for why they migrate there is that it's an opportunity for them to check each other out."
The female great whites assess the male sharks, specifically their fins and muscle tone, and the males show off their strength and stamina with "bounce dives," descending to depths of up to 15,000 feet below the surface.
There's no unique food resource that would keep the sharks coming back to this area. The only reasonable explanation, McKeever says, is that it's become a "Burning Man for Sharks."
He also learned that many sharks, despite their reputations as lone hunters, can be social creatures. Though great whites and tigers rarely travel in packs, smaller species like lemon sharks stick together, especially younger males. "If you're a young male lemon shark, you'll hang out with other young males," McKeever says.
Some of it's about survival. "They'll hide together to escape predators like barracuda," he says. "But it's also a social thing. They become like buddies."
McKeever's mission, he says, is to help people stop wasting psychic energy worrying about sharks.
"That should be the last thing on your mind," he says. "If anything, you should be thinking about what's going to happen on the car ride home from the beach. What you're going to face on the roads is far more dangerous than what's in the ocean."
Lytton, for one, agrees. Despite nearly losing a limb to a shark, he's ready to get back into the ocean this summer.
"I tried getting in just the other day, but my wife said, 'Oh, no you don't!' " Lytton laughs. "She wouldn't let me!"
Sooner or later, he'll be swimming again. Just maybe not at the same Truro beach where he was attacked last year.
"If I got bit again in the same place, that'd be really embarrassing," he says.
SHARK SHOCKERS!
Amazing facts about the 'Emperors of the Deep'
You're 10 times more likely to be bitten by a New Yorker than a shark.
Sharks lose and regrow from 30,000 to 50,000 teeth in a lifetime.
Ninety-three percent of all documented shark attacks since the 16th century have been on boys and men.
According to a 2017 study, sharks become less aggressive and more inquisitive when listening to songs by the band AC/DC — specifically, "If You Want Blood (You've Got It)."
Baby sharks are born with a full set of teeth, so they're never fed by their mothers. They come out ready to hunt and sometimes eat their siblings in the womb.
Sharks are attracted to the low-frequency sound of a dying fish, otherwise known as a "yummy hum."
The world's biggest shark, the now extinct megalodon, was 65 feet long — about the size of a semi-trailer truck.
Strangest things found in sharks' stomachs: bottle of wine, cannonball, an entire chicken coop, birth-control pills, a dog leash, a bag of money, a fur coat, a porcupine.
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Further Configuration of Pip and Virtualenv
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Requiring an active virtual environment for ``pip``
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By now it should be clear that using virtual environments is a great way to
keep your development environment clean and keeping different projects'
requirements separate.

When you start working on many different projects, it can be hard to remember to
activate the related virtual environment when you come back to a specific
project.  As a result of this, it is very easy to install packages globally
while thinking that you are actually installing the package for the virtual
environment of the project. Over time this can result in a messy global package
list.

In order to make sure that you install packages to your active virtual
environment when you use ``pip install``, consider adding the following two
lines to your :file:`~/.bashrc` file:

.. code-block:: console

    export PIP_REQUIRE_VIRTUALENV=true

After saving this change and sourcing the :file:`~/.bashrc` file with
``source ~/.bashrc``, pip will no longer let you install packages if you are not
in a virtual environment.  If you try to use ``pip install`` outside of a
virtual environment pip will gently remind you that an activated virtual
environment is needed to install packages.

.. code-block:: console

    $ pip install requests
    Could not find an activated virtualenv (required).

You can also do this configuration by editing your :file:`pip.conf` or
:file:`pip.ini` file. :file:`pip.conf` is used by Unix and Mac OS X operating
systems and it can be found at:

.. code-block:: console

    $HOME/.pip/pip.conf

Similarly, the :file:`pip.ini` file is used by Windows operating systems and it
can be found at:

.. code-block:: console

    %HOME%\pip\pip.ini

If you don't have a :file:`pip.conf` or :file:`pip.ini` file at these locations,
you can create a new file with the correct name for your operating system.

If you already have a configuration file, just add the following line under the
``[global]`` settings to require an active virtual environment:

.. code-block:: console

    require-virtualenv = true

If you did not have a configuration file, you will need to create a new one and
add the following lines to this new file:

.. code-block:: console

    [global]
    require-virtualenv = true

You will of course need to install some packages globally (usually ones that
you use across different projects consistently) and this can be accomplished by
adding the following to your :file:`~/.bashrc` file:

.. code-block:: console

    gpip() {
        PIP_REQUIRE_VIRTUALENV="" pip "$@"
    }

After saving the changes and sourcing your :file:`~/.bashrc` file you can now
install packages globally by running ``gpip install``. You can change the name
of the function to anything you like, just keep in mind that you will have to
use that name when trying to install packages globally with pip.

Caching packages for future use
-------------------------------

Every developer has preferred libraries and when you are working on a lot of
different projects, you are bound to have some overlap between the libraries
that you use. For example, you may be using the ``requests`` library in a lot
of different projects.

It is surely unnecessary to re-download the same packages/libraries each time
you start working on a new project (and in a new virtual environment as a result).
Fortunately, you can configure pip in such a way that it tries to reuse already
installed packages.

On UNIX systems, you can add the following line to your :file:`.bashrc` or
:file:`.bash_profile` file.

.. code-block:: console

    export PIP_DOWNLOAD_CACHE=$HOME/.pip/cache

You can set the path to anywhere you like (as long as you have write
access). After adding this line, ``source`` your :file:`.bashrc`
(or :file:`.bash_profile`) file and you will be all set.

Another way of doing the same configuration is via the :file:`pip.conf` or
:file:`pip.ini` files, depending on your system. If you are on Windows, you can
add the following line to your :file:`pip.ini` file under ``[global]`` settings:

.. code-block:: console

    download-cache = %HOME%\pip\cache

Similarly, on UNIX systems you should simply add the following line to your
:file:`pip.conf` file under ``[global]`` settings:

.. code-block:: console

    download-cache = $HOME/.pip/cache

Even though you can use any path you like to store your cache, it is recommended
that you create a new folder *in* the folder where your :file:`pip.conf` or
:file:`pip.ini` file lives. If you don't trust yourself with all of this path
voodoo, just use the values provided here and you will be fine.

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Q: What issues would arise if I decide to move my local network to IPv6? I am managing a small corporate network, and actively investigate the possibility of getting rid of IPv4 entirely, at least on the LAN level. I intend to disable IPv4 DHCP and connect to each machine using their IPv6 addresses.
All of my devices support IPv6. My ISP is currently running dual stack (IPv4 + IPv6). What issues would arise if I decide to move my local network to IPv6?
Here are my efforts so far:

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*I bought a static IP address (fyi it costs additional money in my country) and my ISP gave me a static IPv4 one. My public IPv6 address still changes after a router reboot. I asked for a static v6 address but the technical support couldn't help. They said they were running IPv6 on top of IPv4 or something like that.

*If I change the WAN connection in my router from the default IPv4 + IPv6 to IPv4 only, it works. But if I set it to IPv6 only, I cannot connect to the Internet. I don't know why yet.

*By disabling IPv4 support from Windows Network Adapter Properties, web browsers start looking for AAAA DNS records. Most websites still use A record, and do not have AAAA record (maybe because they don't have static IPv6 address for it). The web browser cannot fall back to IPv4 option, and the domain names cannot be resolved.

Is it practical to use IPv6 exclusively on LAN as of now?

A: I'd say it's not practical to run pure v6 for anything that needs public internet access.  You can run pure v6 in "internal" networks all day long though.
When you disable IPv4 on the WAN of your router, it sounds like you are breaking your ISP's v6 delivery method.  i.e. they are tunneling v6 over v4 as you said:

They said they were running IPv6 on top of IPv4 or something like that.

You wouldn't be able to do it with this ISP.  You'd need an ISP that delivered dual stack native to your WAN, not via a tunneling architecture.  Sounds like they might be using 6RD:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IPv6_rapid_deployment

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Top 10 Indian Courier Services Providers in 2020
Rahul Tanwar
Are you looking for the best courier services provider companies available in India? It is right the place to learn more about top 10 escort bordeaux courier services companies available. Through this blog, sharing my views on the future growth of Courier business in India with top Indian courier companies available.
Till 1985, people had fewer options to got courier services in India and were depended on Indian Postal Services to send postal ankara bayan escort articles and parcels. Larger courier parcels were handled by national parcel companies.
The first step in courier services was taken by Skypak-A Mumbai based company, on listening future growth of India in the electronics and telecom sector ushered by the then Prime Minister Mr. Rajiv Gandhi.
The modern face of courier services industry was then born and it grew on the innovation and extensive use of computer and telecom network. This growth could be only possible due to the speedy advancement of Information Technology.
IT Industry possibly managed courier services sector to meet the demands of customers who wanted their articles to be delivered the next kızılay escort day anywhere in India.
Then, India Postal Services launched Speed Post to compete with the courier companies. Now courier services industry has grown from basically zero to achieve a big size target of Rs 14000 crore in 2015-16 and is expected to achieve a targeted growth of Rs 20,000 crore in 2019.
An introduction to Goods and Services Tax (GST) and expansion of e-commerce worldwide also benefitted the courier industry in 2017. Due to the outsourcing of logistics is likely to take place on cost rationalization and timely delivery to customers.
With the rise of E-commerce platform based companies like Amazon, Flipkart, Jabong and Myntra, courier service companies have also got a sudden increase in their numbers with good growth. Delivering the shipments on time and safety is one of the biggest challenges of E-commerce services.
Though every industry requires courier's services, E-commerce companies are always on the lookout for a good delivery service at reasonable rates. It has created a competition for the market and it is hard to pick out a logistics services at reasonable rates and best services.
Are you looking for the best courier services provider? Here presenting the top 10 best logistics services in India which can provide good delivery services around the world:-
1. Indian Postal Service
Postal services started in India on 1 April 1854 since English Rule. But Indian Postal Service was started in India by Government of India continuing patronage. It is funded by Central Government and its Head office is situated at New Delhi.
First such organization of free India to deliver the parcel, letters, money orders, banking facility, lockers, and Goods supply anywhere in the country.
India Post is the most reliable delivery service in India. Due to involvement and fund by the Government of India, its charges are cheaper than courier service companies.
Indian Postal Service is having the highest number of the post office in the world and covering with maximum reliability.
As per current serviceability and the highest number of Post offices, no other service provider can beat them on ground presently. Even in terms of cost Indian Postal services is more affordable as a courier service.
2. DTDC Courier Services
DTDC is a well-known courier company in the country serving domestic and international courier since 1990. DTDC was started by Mr. Subhasish Chakraborty in 1990. Now it is providing services over 10000 pin codes throughout India.
DTDC is providing services internationally in a collaboration with DHL, Armax, UPS, FedEx, and TNT and supplies more than 240 international destinations in all continents. Headquarter of DTDC is located in Bangalore and is corporate office and delivery centers in all cities. Its major business work is covered by his franchise segments.
Nowadays, the company has tightened franchise sublet system of courier services. Company policies are not very friendly for newcomers. It will be very difficult to fulfill all the formalities of the company in a month even.
Taking the franchise of DTDC is the most costly than all others. They are too specific on the branding and the cost keeps increasing for the beginners whereas the profit is the same as others. Moreover, the payment system is also not in favor of new business owners.
In my opinion, starting your business with DTDC should not be your first choice. But starting as a service provider, it will cost cheaper than Bluedart and higher than all other companies. It is the costing which is going to affect your business most.
3. Overnite Express Courier Services
Overnite Express Ltd is the second largest courier services providing company in India and has spread his wings throughout the country. The company was founded in 1987 by Mr. OP Rajgarhia with domestic courier services. Now the company has offices in all metro cities like Delhi, Mumbai, Chennai, Kolkata, and Bangalore.
Overnite express is growing rapidly and spreading across different cities of India and also has collaborations with all major international company. Now it has over 2,800 plus conveniently located offices including 20 Regional Offices, 58 Area Offices and 37 Mini Hubs which work 24×7 throughout the year.
Now the company serves over 6,000 PIN Codes spread over 1,000 locations across the country.
In comparison with other services provider's, Overnite Express is rendering outstanding services at competitive rates. The user-friendly interface of the website provides the online platform to the customers to access pickup request, Pincode search, rate calculator, tracking services of the parcel and much more.
In my opinion, starting your business with Overnite may be considered as your first choice. It cost is competitive than all other companies available in India.
4. Bluedart Express
Bluedart Express Limited is also one among the best courier services company in India. Bluedart is also known for speediest courier services. Headquarter of the company is located in Chennai. The company uses Chennai terminal as its hub for receiving and dispatch for national couriers.
Blue Dart was founded in November 1983 by Mr. Tushar Jani and two of his friends namely Mr. Khushroo Dubash and Mr. Clyde Cooper. In the early years, Blue Dart had operations business of international air package express services from India.
For the International segment, the company is affiliated with DHL due to 70% of stock holding. In other ways, DHL is treated as the parent company of the Bluedart.
Services of Bluedart Express is no doubt very effective. But costing wise, it is the most expensive company in India.
As far as company holding and other financial and authorities, you can't say it as an Indian company. This is also one of the biggest reasons for the company that it doesn't sublet its franchise option. The company operates efficiently on its own and the profit and interest vests in foreign authorities.
5. First Flight Courier Services
First Flight was started by OP Sahoo in November 1986, with 3 offices at Kolkata, Mumbai & Delhi. Now the company has a network of 1200 offices throughout the country with 9 international offices in prime locations.
To rise to the rank of India's premier domestic courier company, the company had struggled his journey to this mark. Having rich experience in courier services sector, the company left no stone unturned and also known for the globe- safely, speedily & importantly to the right people.
In my opinion, joining as a business associate with First Flight may be considered as a good choice.
6. Trackon Courier Services
The Company was started in January 2002 under the name "Comcour Couriers Pvt. Ltd" with 2 offices in Delhi and Mumbai at initial. In September 2004, the company changed its name as "TRACKON COURIERS PVT. LTD" and started a nation-wide network.
Now the company has a presence at approx 1400 locations, and also connected by air-mode to all major connected cities. Corporate office of the company is at New Delhi and having its regional Offices at Ahmedabad, Bengaluru, Chandigarh, Chennai, Indore, Jaipur, Hyderabad, Patna, Kochi, Kolkata, and Mumbai.
In comparison with other services provider's, Trackon Courier is also providing outstanding services at fair prices. Website based interface provides the online tracking tool helps the customer.
In my opinion, join as a business associate with Trackon Courier may be considered as your second choice.
7. Gati Limited
Gati initiated express distribution service in India in 1989 and was founded by Mr. Mahendra Agarwal Founder & CEO. Gati was one of the first companies to evolved print Proof of Delivery' (POD).
The Company initiated practice which is now adopted as a standard norm in the courier services industry. It started his operational services between Madras and Madurai.
Like other courier services companies, Gati also has same services provides door to door courier services in India. The company was the Main hold of the company is extent in South Asian countries. Now the company is having good relations in Bhutan and the foothills of the Himalayas.
8. Professional Courier
The Professional Courier Limited was founded in 1987. A group of young directors started their courier services business with a high ideology of excellence in service. Courier services business was started from New Delhi at initial.
Now the company is holding 20 regional offices and more than 20K employees and have a good network in many countries and now have a courier services office in New York, Dubai, and Singapore.
9. Shree Maruti Courier Services
Mr. Rambhai H founded Shree Maruti Courier Limited in 1985 at Porbandar . Mokariya as a firm at initial and transfPorbandar.Private Limited Company in 1987 and prolonged its business in other cities of Gujarat and throughout India later.
The company is a major courier services company in India consisting of a nationwide network of approx 1650 outlets and 20 Regional Offices located all over India having more than 5000 employees.
The company renders good courier services to various Nationalized and Scheduled Banks, Government and semi-government sectors, Corporations, and top graded National and Multinational Industrial Houses.
10. Kartrocket
Kartrocket is a newbie in the courier industry and the company started its services in 2012. It has good relations tied-ups with major courier giant like DHL, Aramex, First Flight, eCOM Express and DTDC depending on the service area and the cost.
It gives you the cheapest price option which is mostly depending on your delivery area. With the number of its tie-ups, Kartrocket presently provides its services in all over India.
Though the company is new but have good visionary team leaders in the organization.
If you are curious to know more before starting courier industry business, you must read our blog – Is-courier-services-is-a-good-business-idea/. Surely it will give a clearcut vision of the courier industry.
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The present study attempts to understand the use of three information processing mechanisms – cognitive, affective, and normative – to assess the quality of cashmere products made in Mongolia. For attaining the above aims, semi-structured interviews were conducted to test a framework that resulted from literature reviewed on country of origin (COO) effect and information processing mechanisms. Results demonstrate that for Business-to-Business (B2B) clients, the COO is an extremely relevant cue to evaluate the quality of cashmere. Conversely, most of the consumers do not seem to include the COO effect on their information processing and base their evaluation on four distinct product-related attributes: quality, brand, social status, and price. Results are relevant for the Mongolian cashmere industry, as well as for marketers interested in understanding what drives consumers of cashmere in their buying decisions. We also understand these findings to assist in improving the image of Mongolia as one of the world's best manufacturers of cashmere.
The study profiled and compared household multidimensional poverty status and its determinants among urban and rural households in the Eastern Cape Province of South Africa, using information from a sample population of 3033 households interviewed from the Province during the General Household Survey conducted by the Statistics South Africa in 2014. Analytical techniques utilized include the recent multidimensional poverty index (MPI), descriptive statistics and Tobit regression. Findings reveal that multiple deprivations are found mostly in the rural area of the province; the multidimensional headcount is highest in the rural area, though the intensity of multidimensional poverty is almost similar in both geographical locations. The standard of living dimension is also the largest contribution to MPI in both locations. MPI has significant links with education attainment of household head, access to electricity and asset stock in both geographical locations, but is influenced by the gender of head, agriculture engagement and household monthly income in rural areas only. In order to improve households' multidimensional poverty status in both urban and rural locations, there is the need to take into account some significant variables such as education of head, increase electricity subsidy coverage during winter period, asset accumulation and increase in households' participation in agricultural activities, especially those residing in rural areas.
This paper examines the impact of financial literacy on stock price informativeness in a sample of firms from 20 countries. Using four measures of stock price informativeness, we find a significant relationship between higher financial literacy and higher stock price informativeness. The individual investors' contribution regarding the incorporation of specific information into stock prices includes private information also and not mere specific information in the general sense. Financial knowledge is the key element that helps individual investors to incorporate specific information into stock prices.
Dividend Payout, Retention Policy and Financial Performance in Commercial Banks: Any Causal Relationship?
Dividend policy remains one of the top ten unresolved issues in corporate finance including in the banking sector. Hence, this study explores data from 250 commercial banks in 30 Sub-Saharan African countries to establish the causal relationship between the use of two major dividend policies in the sector and financial performance for the period 2006 to 2015. The empirical results of the vector error correction block exogeneity Wald test and Pairwise Granger causality test reveal that only retention policies Granger cause performance (ROA), even though both major policies posit a positive relationship with performance (ROA) in the Vector Error Correction Model estimate. Therefore, commercial banks in Sub Saharan Africa and also in the entire world should use their free cash flows wisely by exploring all available viable investment opportunities. By doing this, not only owners' profit but wealth is fully maximised such that their survival, value creation, and future growth is fully justified.
Increased organizational efficiency should be one of the main strategic goals of every business. Ways of achieving it differ and one of the many choices is to improve business operations using available tools such as the "20 keys methodology". This methodology is used to achieve strategic goals through the enhanced speed of learning and innovation. The aim of this paper is to look at the potential of 20 keys methodology for the improvement of company's organizational efficiency in today's global market. This integrated set of different tools is intended to increase the company's efficiency and level of quality with synchronized cost reduction. 20 keys tend to eliminate various "wastes" in production processes to improve buyer's satisfaction and motivate employees to act towards achieving company's goals. Eventually, the methodology application should ensure a sustainable development, profitability, and integrated approach to competitiveness and long-term success of the company. The paper examines the implementation of the 20 keys methodology in Croatia and presents one case of a local production company using the methodology aiming to increase the organizational efficiency. Further research proposals are brought to confirm the potential influence of methodology on organizational efficiency.
Over the past few years, a large number of projects related to entrepreneurship ideas have appeared daily in the media, due to the fact that they were sold as new solutions for companies or gave origin to new companies. These projects were mainly created by individuals who were students, unemployed persons or working people and, consequently, did not have a company of their own and, in most of the cases, also did not have the means to finance their idea. In some situations, the creation of a crowdfunding project presents itself as a convenient and riskless option for funding and this is frequently the reason why some project initiators decide to launch a campaign. The assessment of each campaign depends on the expectations of the project creator, who is in the best position to decide whether it was actually successful. Untangling how a project owner can assess the performance of its project is of major importance, namely when projects are launched by individuals who ultimately carry all the tasks involved in the initiative. This is a field of research within crowdfunding that remains, to the best of our knowledge, under researched. We propose a framework for the analysis of the success of these projects and we test it on six crowdfunding projects launched in Portugal. Our goal is to shed light to the factors that can be used by project creators in the assessment of the performance of their initiatives.
The extrinsic product cues are becoming a very important aspect in product evaluation by consumers. Because of their importance many authors are exploring which extrinsic cues are considered more significant when evaluating the different kind of products. Therefore, the aim of this research is to investigate the impact of most researched extrinsic cues such as the country of origin (COO), brand, and price on a purchasing decision for food products among consumers in Kosova. To explore the domestic country bias, the impact of the additional cue labeled as "domestic product" is studied. Based on a quantitative survey, the main findings of this study revealed that the brand, the price, the country of origin, and domestic branded products have positive impact on a consumer's purchasing decision, since consumers rely on those extrinsic cues when making their purchasing decisions. When multiple cues are presented, the country of origin is considered as the most important cue, while the "domestic product" is least important to Kosovar consumers. The findings of this study are useful to food producers and marketers of food products, since it can provide them with useful information on what consumers consider most important when purchasing food products.
In a renewable resource based overlapping generations (OLG) model without harvest costs, a complex combination of the time discount factor, the resource production share, and the natural regeneration rate ensure the existence of a stationary market equilibrium and its intergenerational efficiency when the own rate of return on natural capital is positive. This paper investigates to what extent previous findings carry over to an OLG economy with two types of unit harvest costs (constant, inverse stock dependent) arising from the competition for labor between resource harvesting and resource processing. In contrast to the model without harvest cost, we show why large unit harvest costs, surprisingly, do not require a complex combination of basic parameters for the existence of a stationary state, and that in the model with stock dependent costs intergenerational efficiency might occur even when the own rate of return on natural capital is negative.
In the past two decades, several researchers have applied service quality frameworks in sport-related domains in measuring service quality among participants. However, university campus recreation has been scarce as compared to organised sport at local, regional and national levels, which often depends on a limited tenure linked to their membership as a registered student at a university. The purpose of the study is to investigate service quality dimensions as perceived by university leisure and recreation students. A cross-sectional survey was undertaken among 301 university students using a non-probability purposive sampling. Variables that constituted campus recreation service quality were operationalised through a literature review, including sport and recreational scales. Through factor analysis, seven distinct dimensions of campus recreation service quality were established. These factors were labelled: people interaction, facility design, sociability, physical change, equipment, ambience and program range. Item total correlations show satisfactory convergence of the items within their relevant constructs. This study complements the existing recreational sports body of knowledge by exploring campus recreation service quality. These dimensions may assist campus recreation mangers to understand the dimensions that are pertinent among students within a university context better. Recreation managers, in their periodic measurement of service quality, can incorporate these dimensions.
This paper investigates the impact of the degree of capital account openness on banks' exposure to extreme events during the period 2005-2012 using a sample of financial institutions from Central and Eastern Europe. The empirical output highlights a positive and strongly significant impact of a higher degree of financial openness on banks' systemic vulnerability. Robust findings suggest that this harmful effect is lower for foreign owned banks or for those whose bank holding company signed one or more Vienna Initiative commitment letters. On the other side, tighter capital regulations and private monitoring policies enhance the positive impact of a higher degree of capital accounts openness on banks' vulnerability to systemic events.


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Building Up Communities with Innovative New Programs and Services
Province Supporting Local Projects Through Ontario Trillium Foundation
July 18, 2017 9:29 A.M.
Ministry of Tourism, Culture and Sport
Ontario is supporting 204 new and innovative projects that will respond to local needs and help build healthy and vibrant communities across the province.
Ted McMeekin, MPP for Ancaster-Dundas-Flamborough-Westdale, made the announcement today on behalf of Eleanor McMahon, Minister of Tourism Culture and Sport, at the Immigrants Working Centre in Hamilton.
Two of the recipients include:
Empowerment Squared's new digital literacy program, which will help more than 100 newcomer parents learn how to use computers, tablets, smartphones and web-based platforms so they can take an active role in their children's education.
The Eva Rothwell Centre, which will support women's employment in the skilled trades, science, technology, engineering and mathematics through an education and employment program.
Projects are part of the Ontario Trillium Foundation's Seed Investment Stream, which helps communities meet local needs through new ideas and projects, such as helping people find work, helping newcomers settle in a community or helping volunteer organizations boost their membership. An additional 11 projects are being awarded Collective Impact Grants, which help organizations work together to address complex social issues in communities.
Supporting strong, healthy communities is part of our plan to create jobs, grow our economy and help people in their everyday lives.
The Ontario Trillium Foundation, an agency of the Government of Ontario, is one of Canada's largest granting foundations.
Empowerment Squared is receiving $70,000 for its digital literacy program.
The Eva Rothwell Centre is receiving $47,500 for its education program.
Since 2013, the Ontario Trillium Foundation has invested over $444 million in projects to help build healthy and vibrant communities.
Sixteen Grant Review Teams across Ontario, composed of active community-based volunteers, review applications and guide granting decisions for the OTF.
OTF publishes its granting data in a raw, machine-readable format to help drive innovation and collaboration. This aligns with Ontario's Open Government commitment to increase transparency by making government data more publicly available.
Learn about OTF's Investment Strategy
"Our government recognizes the importance of helping communities respond to local unique needs. The projects announced today demonstrate the versatility and scope of this fund with new and innovative ways of addressing local needs to benefit the community."
Eleanor McMahon
Minister of Tourism, Culture and Sport
"I am thrilled the Ontario government is supporting Empowerment Squared, an organization that helps Hamilton youth and young adults develop valuable social and leadership skills. I look forward to seeing the positive impact of this OTF seed grant as Empowerment Squared supports new refugees and helps them become connected in the community."
Ted McMeekin
MPP for Ancaster-Dundas-Flamborough-Westdale
"By supporting Empowerment Squared in helping newcomers engage with their children's education, and assisting The Eva Rothwell Centre to increase women's skills development in the Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics fields, the Ontario Trillium Foundation is proud to ensure we're playing an integral role in strengthening communities. Whenever we invest in projects that support education and employment, we are helping future generations understand the importance of knowledge in creating vibrant and healthy communities."
Tim Jackson
Board Chair, Ontario Trillium Foundation
"The Seed grant from the Ontario Trillium Foundation will empower over 100 newcomer parents through a digital literacy program. Parents will now be able to participate in their children's education and engage with the school system, something they couldn't do before. This grant serves as a direct bridge between our ability to support newcomer youth through academic mentoring and empowering their parents and adult allies to play a role as a consistent support base throughout the education and social development process of their children."
Leo Nupolu Johnson
Executive Director and Founder, Empowerment Squared
"I would like to thank the Ontario Trillium Foundation for making this project possible. Through our partnership with City School by Mohawk College and the financial contribution from the Ontario Trillium Foundation we will be able to provide programming to a demographic that has been underserviced in this area. With this Seed grant the Eva Rothwell Centre will provide skilled trades and Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) education and employment programs for women."
Matt Kelly
Executive Director, The Eva Rothwell Centre
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2 edition of Alpark"s new educational handbook found in the catalog.
Alpark"s new educational handbook
Dorothy Rawls Luke
a window to the child"s mind
by Dorothy Rawls Luke
Published 1955 by Starbridge Publications in New York .
Parkhurst, Helen, -- 1887-,
Child development.,
Child psychology.
Statement by Dorothy R. Luke.
LC Classifications BF721.P32 L8 1955
Pagination xxiii, 260 p.
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WHO recommends breastfeeding, says no live coronavirus found in mothers' milk
FILE PHOTO: A logo is pictured on the headquarters of the World Health Organization (WHO) ahead of a meeting of the Emergency Committee on the novel coronavirus (2019-nCoV) in Geneva, Switzerland, January 30, 2020. REUTERS/Denis Balibouse
ZURICH/GENEVA (Reuters) - Breastfeeding mothers do not seem to be passing on the new coronavirus to their infants, and based on current evidence the benefits outweigh any potential risks of transmission, the World Health Organization (WHO) said on Friday.
WHO director-general Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said that it had carefully investigated the risks of women transmitting COVID-19 to their babies during breastfeeding.
"We know that children are at relatively low risk of COVID-19, but are at high risk of numerous other diseases and conditions that breastfeeding prevents," Tedros told a news conference.
"Based on the available evidence, WHO's advice is that the benefits of breastfeeding outweigh any potential risks of transmission of COVID-19," he said.
Anshu Banerjee, a senior advisor in WHO's Department of Reproductive Health and Research, said that only "fragments" of the virus had been detected in breast milk, not live virus.
"So far we have not been able to detect live virus in breast milk," he said. "So the risk of transmission from mother to child so far has not been established."
Reporting by John Revill and Stephanie Nebehay; editing by Emelia Sithole-Matarise


Don't get me wrong that's not to find fault with the menu of the day which was an innovative mix of treats to start the day including 'Ulster Fry on a Stick' (don't think it will catch on though.) It was the Bank's economist Richard Ramsay's summary of economic prospects as Brexit beckons that left me with a sense of unease.
Some good news was offered that whilst consumers are feeling the squeeze, farmers aren't. This is as a result of favourable exchange rates and a rise in milk prices. But even they might be 'living in a bubble, at least according to Barclay Bell of the UFU.
Time will tell. So as I digested all the data, including the depressing fact that the fry served up has increased nearly 3% since last year, it left me with the feeling that we might need to get used to working harder for less.
Whilst Cyril Millar, who is President of the RUAS, invited Richard Ramsay up to his farm to show him the meaning of 'productivity,' reminding him that a dairy farmer's day in Northern Ireland starts at 5am.


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Robert G. Nassau
Executive Director, Office of Clinical Legal Education
Director, Low Income Taxpayer Clinic
rnassau@syr.edu
Harvard University Law School
J.D. 1986
B.A., summa cum laude 1981
Professor Nassau joined the College of Law faculty as an adjunct instructor in 1994, became Professor of Practice in 2009, and became Teaching Professor in 2017. He has taught tax courses since 1994, and has directed the Low Income Taxpayer Clinic since its founding in 2002. He has also taught tax courses at Yale Law School, St. John Fisher College, and the William E. Simon Graduate School of Business Administration at the University of Rochester. After law school, he worked for five years as a tax associate at Sullivan & Cromwell, LLP, in New York City; and for many years he provided consulting tax counsel for the firm of Boylan Code, LLP, in Rochester, NY. Professor Nassau received a B.A. in Japanese Studies from Yale in 1981 and his J.D. from Harvard in 1986


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First Line: Anna Hocking called the Posadas County sheriff's office at 9:14 P.M. on December 19.
Unfortunately, by the time Undersheriff Bill Gastner could get there, 86-year-old Anna Hocking was lying dead at the bottom of her cellar stairs. Gastner doesn't think her fall was an accident, just like he knows there's a good reason why elderly Reuben Fuentes has started carrying a gun after his three dogs were poisoned. When two more bodies turn up on Reuben's property and the local gossip mill goes into hyperdrive, Gastner knows he needs some help. Putting in a call to his former deputy (and Reuben's niece), Gastner will not rest until the real killer is found.
I know of readers who have a tendency to think that slender books can't possibly be as good as thick ones. Don't make that mistake with Steven F. Havill's Posadas County mystery series. Each book packs a big punch with a real feel for rural New Mexico, an engrossing mystery, and some of the best characters you'll find anywhere. Twice Buried can easily be read as a standalone. For that matter, the series itself doesn't necessarily need to be read in order, but I recommend that you do so-- especially if you're a reader who loves excellent characterization. The personal relationships between the characters grow and change as time passes, and too much of that would be lost if you read at random.
"But there's no foul play, no crime. It's just an unattended death. The only dignity she has remaining is what we preserve. The public has no rights in there. And we haven't notified any next of kin, so I'd rather no one was in that house who doesn't need to be."
There are many excellent mysteries out there that allow us to see places we've never been to and to solve crimes we'll never have to face. It takes a very special kind of crime fiction writer to do all that and create characters who treat others with true dignity and compassion. Steven F. Havill does just that with his beautifully crafted Posadas County mysteries. Each one is a pleasure to read and experience.
Source: Purchased as an eBook from Barnes & Noble.
Cathy - I love stories (crime fiction or otherwise) where you really get a feel for the place and culture as well as the actual story. And this one sounds like one of those series. Thanks for putting it on the 'radar' and all the best to you and Denis in 2014!
The same to you and yours, Margot!


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package com.sksamuel.elastic4s

import org.elasticsearch.action.WriteConsistencyLevel
import org.elasticsearch.action.delete.DeleteResponse
import org.elasticsearch.action.deletebyquery.{DeleteByQueryRequestBuilder, DeleteByQueryResponse}
import org.elasticsearch.action.support.QuerySourceBuilder
import org.elasticsearch.action.support.replication.ReplicationType
import org.elasticsearch.client.{Client, Requests}
import org.elasticsearch.index.VersionType

import scala.concurrent.Future
import scala.language.implicitConversions

/** @author Stephen Samuel */
trait DeleteDsl extends QueryDsl with IndexesTypesDsl {

  class DeleteByQueryExpectsType(indexes: Seq[String]) {
    def types(_types: String*): DeleteByQueryExpectsClause = types(_types)
    def types(_types: Iterable[String]): DeleteByQueryExpectsClause =
      new DeleteByQueryExpectsClause(IndexesTypes(indexes, _types.toSeq))
  }

  class DeleteByIdExpectsFrom(id: Any) {
    def from(_index: String): DeleteByIdDefinition = new DeleteByIdDefinition(IndexesTypes(_index), id)
    def from(_indexes: String*): DeleteByIdExpectsTypes = from(_indexes)
    def from(_indexes: Iterable[String]): DeleteByIdExpectsTypes = new DeleteByIdExpectsTypes(_indexes, id)
    def from(indexesTypes: IndexesTypes): DeleteByIdDefinition = new DeleteByIdDefinition(indexesTypes, id)
  }

  class DeleteByIdExpectsTypes(indexes: Iterable[String], id: Any) {
    def types(`type`: String): DeleteByIdDefinition = types(List(`type`))
    def types(_types: String*): DeleteByIdDefinition = types(_types)
    def types(_types: Iterable[String]): DeleteByIdDefinition =
      new DeleteByIdDefinition(IndexesTypes(indexes.toSeq, _types.toSeq), id)
  }

  implicit def string2indextype(index: String): IndexesType = new IndexesType(index)
  implicit def string2indextype(indexes: String*): IndexesType = new IndexesType(indexes: _*)

  class IndexesType(indexes: String*) {
    def types(types: String*): DeleteByQueryExpectsClause = new DeleteByQueryExpectsClause(IndexesTypes(indexes, types))
    def types(types: Iterable[String]): DeleteByQueryExpectsClause =
      new DeleteByQueryExpectsClause(IndexesTypes(indexes, types.toSeq))
  }

  class DeleteByQueryExpectsClause(indexesTypes: IndexesTypes) {
    def types(_types: String*): DeleteByQueryExpectsClause = types(_types)
    def types(_types: Iterable[String]): DeleteByQueryExpectsClause = new
        DeleteByQueryExpectsClause(indexesTypes.copy(types = _types.toSeq))
    def id(id: Any): DeleteByIdDefinition = new DeleteByIdDefinition(indexesTypes, id)
    def where(query: String): DeleteByQueryDefinition = where(new SimpleStringQueryDefinition(query))
    def where(query: QueryDefinition): DeleteByQueryDefinition = new DeleteByQueryDefinition(indexesTypes, query)
  }

  implicit object DeleteByIdDefinitionExecutable extends Executable[DeleteByIdDefinition, DeleteResponse] {
    override def apply(c: Client, t: DeleteByIdDefinition): Future[DeleteResponse] = {
      injectFuture(c.delete(t.build, _))
    }
  }

  implicit object DeleteByQueryDefinitionExecutable extends Executable[DeleteByQueryDefinition, DeleteByQueryResponse] {
    override def apply(c: Client, t: DeleteByQueryDefinition): Future[DeleteByQueryResponse] = {
      injectFuture(c.deleteByQuery(t.build, _))
    }
  }
}

class DeleteByIdDefinition(indexType: IndexesTypes, id: Any) extends BulkCompatibleDefinition {
  private val builder = Requests.deleteRequest(indexType.index).`type`(indexType.typ.orNull).id(id.toString)
  def types(_type: String): DeleteByIdDefinition = {
    builder.`type`(_type)
    this
  }
  def parent(parent: String): DeleteByIdDefinition = {
    builder.parent(parent)
    this
  }
  def routing(routing: String): DeleteByIdDefinition = {
    builder.routing(routing)
    this
  }
  def refresh(refresh: Boolean): DeleteByIdDefinition = {
    builder.refresh(refresh)
    this
  }
  def version(version: Int): DeleteByIdDefinition = {
    builder.version(version)
    this
  }
  def versionType(versionType: VersionType): DeleteByIdDefinition = {
    builder.versionType(versionType)
    this
  }
  def build = builder
}

class DeleteByQueryDefinition(indexesTypes: IndexesTypes, q: QueryDefinition) {

  private val builder: DeleteByQueryRequestBuilder =
    new DeleteByQueryRequestBuilder(ProxyClients.client)
      .setIndices(indexesTypes.indexes: _*)
      .setTypes(indexesTypes.types: _*)

  def types(types: String*): DeleteByQueryDefinition = {
    builder.setTypes(types.toSeq: _*)
    this
  }
  def routing(routing: String): DeleteByQueryDefinition = {
    builder.setRouting(routing)
    this
  }
  def replicationType(repType: String): DeleteByQueryDefinition = {
    builder.setReplicationType(repType)
    this
  }
  def replicationType(repType: ReplicationType): DeleteByQueryDefinition = {
    builder.setReplicationType(repType)
    this
  }
  def consistencyLevel(consistencyLevel: WriteConsistencyLevel): DeleteByQueryDefinition = {
    builder.setConsistencyLevel(consistencyLevel)
    this
  }

  def build = {
    val req = builder.request()

    // need to set the query on the request - workaround for ES internals
    val qsb = new QuerySourceBuilder().setQuery(q.builder)
    req.source(qsb)
  }
}