This statistic shows the development of corn prices within the American market from 1936 to 2017, per metric ton. In 1956, the price for one bushel of corn in the United States was around 3.97 U.S. dollars. In 2013, one bushel of corn cost about 61.68 U.S. dollars. The United States was the largest producer of corn worldwide in 2015.
Values prior to 2005 were taken from previous editions of the publication.
** Projected for crop year September 2015 to August 2016.


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AU Condemns Deadly Attack on AMISOM Soldiers
July 30, 2019 July 31, 2019 Ethiopian Monitor	#African Union, #Amisom, #Burundi, #Somalia
ADDIS ABEBA – African Union has condemned in the strongest terms the attack perpetrated by Al-Shabab militants against its peacekeeping mission in Somalia.
At least six soldiers, all of them Burundi, were killed in the attack, said officials of the African Union Mission in Somalia (AMISOM).
The attack came just a few days after six people including two district commissioners were killed, in a suicide bomb attack on a Somalia government building in the country's capital.
The chairperson of the AU Commission, Moussa Faki Mahamat, condemns the attack "in the strongest terms", said his office in a statement.
The troops were attacked in Balad district, located about 30 kilometers northeast from the capital city of Mogadishu.
"We are united in grief with the families of the fallen soldiers, the people and Government of Burundi for the loss of the brave troops who made the ultimate sacrifice in service of, and support to a fellow African nation in combatting terrorism," the Chairperson said.
"We wish the injured a speedy and full recovery," he said, urging the international community to provide appropriate support to Somalia and AMISOM to consolidate security gains in the country.
Thousands of AU soldiers are in Somalia to help the federal government fights Islamist militant group al-Shabab.
Uganda, which first sent troops to the country in 2007, is the biggest contributor with more than 6,000 soldiers in the force. The other troop-contributing countries are Kenya, Burundi, Djibouti, and Ethiopia.
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Ooni Of Ife Is Dead
Breaking News OBITUARY
The Ooni of Ife, Alayeluwa Oba Okunade Sijuwade, is dead. He died today in London at the age of 85.
Oba Sijuwade was the fifth Ooni of Ife. He climbed unto the throne on December 6, 1980. As the Ooni of Ife, he presided over the Ife territory, in the South West Nigeria but his influence went far and beyond.
He came into office at the height of the supremacy fight amongst Yoruba Obas. The crisis pitched him against the Alaafin of Oyo. It festered on until Osun state was carved out of the old Oyo State.
Before he became an Oba, he studied at Abeokuta Grammar School and later at Northampton College in the United Kingdom before he became a manager at Leventis stores.
Oba Sijuwade's term as Oba was characterised with political treachery, as he was one of the traditional rulers that meddled in politics. He was infamously instrumental to the annulment of June 12, 1993, elections won by late Moshood Abiola. The Ooni had also been severally fingered in the failed effort to have Senator Iyiola Omisore elected the governor of Osun state in 2011.
He is survived by several wives and children.
Politics PUBLIC HEALTH
BREAKING: Ex-Oyo Governor, Ajimobi, Is Dead
BREAKING: Former Nigerian Senator, Buruji Kashamu, Is Dead
Ooni Died In London, Source Confirms
Zimbabwe Opposition Leader Morgan Tsvangirai Dies Of Colon Cancer In South Africa
Ex-Vice President Alex Ekwueme Is Dead
BREAKING: Tony Anenih, Ex-PDP BoT Chairman, Is Dead


As previously mentioned, for little mans first birthday party I really wanted everything to be pinterest perfect… but then life happened and I found myself scrambling Saturday morning to get our collective lives together. Given the heat and the inevitable chaos that seems to engulf my life, everything actually went pretty smoothly and we had a great day! Little man and company enjoyed the kiddie pool, indulged in some classic cookout chow, and just had a solid time spending the day celebrating the first year.
As the title states, this party definitely fell into the "lazy" mom category, with a passive theme and store bought cupcakes, somehow it still came together well enough that I wanted to share it with you! We planned on a Curious George theme and had some passive decorations, focusing more so on primary colors, the aesthetic was pleasing but not over bearing. There was no monkey cake, but I did make a small banana shaped cake to go with the smash cake that was engulfed in primary color fun.
For the dessert display I simply wrapped an empty box with the fun wrapping paper I had on hand, and our dollar store cups and plates were easily transformed into the man with the yellow hat's hat, by simply cutting a strip of black paper and taping it around the cup. We even left out a copy of Curious George's Birthday Surprise with markers for guests to sign. By focusing more so on the overall feel of the Curious George books with the primary colors rather than the monkey himself, the theme was easily pulled together. Having a few primary focus decorations rather than an overwhelming amount of monkey faces made the party also seem more like a gathering of friends than a typical birthday party, keeping it low key and calm which was so refreshing.
I foolishly attempted to make a cake and frosting from scratch, and even though both things came out tasting phenomenal, the execution was very "nailed it" in how it came out. (I'll be tweaking the cake and frosting recipes slightly and saving those for another post.) End of the day little man enjoyed the cake and did his fair share of finger licking, and having cupcakes made cake distribution so much easier!
We did simple burgers and hot dogs, placing everything out in a buffet style made it a smooth, albeit crowded, feeding process for the party guests. Keeping the menu simple also really helped limit food waste and clean up which was another awesome part of having a low key party.
Ezras first birthday party was definitely curious, a lot of fun, and spent celebrating with his family and friends on a beautiful May day. We couldn't have been happier with how everything pulled together. Next year will probably also fall into the lazy mom category, but if I've learned anything its that less is more and as long as you're in good company, a party will always be a success.


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La Maserati Tipo 154, anche conosciuta come 151/4 è una autovettura coupé da competizione, costruita dalla Maserati nel 1965.

Contesto
Era stata studiata per le gare di resistenza ed è stata scherzosamente definita il "furgone da corsa" per il suo aspetto. È stata un'evoluzione della Tipo 152, con telaio rivisto, più convogliatori e prese d'aria, ed una cilindrata più alta. La Tipo 154 montava un propulsore V8 da 5046,8 cm³ di cilindrata.

Durante le prove ufficiali delle 24 Ore di Le Mans del 1965 il pilota Lloyd Casner rimase ucciso su una Tipo 154, dopo che si era capottato ed dopo aver abbattuto due alberi.

Dopo due mesi l'incidente che costò la vita a Casner, il motore della Tipo 154 fu montato sulla Tipo 65.

La Tipo 154 fu l'ultimo modello della Maserati basato sulla classe GT.

Tipo 154

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Pull on your dancing shoes and get ready for a night of line dancing on Teesside.
Regular sessions will be held at Marton Community Centre in Cypress Road, Marton, at 6pm from April 22.
Dancers will receive tuition. For information contact Jo on 01642 710595.


For business people to make a short business visit to Australia for up to three months. Business activities may include a conference, negotiation or exploratory business visit, but do not include acting, musical performances or commercial film making.
For business people to establish a business in Australia, manage a new or existing business or invest in Australia. These are temporary visas that offer a pathway to a permanent visa.
For people sponsored by a state or territory of Australia. Applicants must have a successful business career, and a genuine and realistic commitment to be involved as an owner in a new or existing business in Australia.
For senior executive employees of a major overseas business, who have significant net assets and a genuine and realistic commitment to participate in the management of a new or existing business in Australia.
For senior executive employees of a major overseas business, sponsored by a state or territory of Australia, who have significant net assets and a genuine and realistic commitment to participate in the management of a new or existing business in Australia.
For holders of a Temporary Business (Long Stay) Independent Executive visa (subclass 457IE) who need more time to be eligible to apply for a permanent business visa.
For people who have established the required level of business in Australia while holding a provisional visa. A direct permanent residence visa is also available for high-calibre business people.
For high calibre business people, sponsored by a state or territory of Australia, who are owners or part owners of an overseas business and have a genuine and realistic commitment to participate in the management of a new or existing business in Australia.
For people who, as a temporary resident, have established a business in Australia, and have a proven ownership interest in one or more successful businesses in Australia.
For people who hold an Investor (provisional) visa and have maintained their designated investment/s for at least 4 years. Applicants must have have been in Australia for at least 2 of the last 4 years.


The Asian Wedding Experience is more than just a show, It is also a network of the suppliers made possible by the brilliant exhibitors who join us each year to showcase what they do, but then something awesome happens, we run events for suppliers and run a wedding referral network.
We are working on an INSPIRE 2019 & AWE The Showcase for 2020. If you'd like to apply for the show or want to take part in future shows we are planning around the UK, now is the time to get in touch.
Any message or things you'd like us to know?
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Bob Steele's career spans 58 years as a swim coach, whose experience and accolades have made him a giant in the sport. A conference- and national amateur championship-winning swim captain at SIU from 1958 to 1961, Steele began his coaching career with a Carbondale-based youth group. He spent more than a decade as the head swim coach for SIU, with a 230-66 lifetime record. During his tenure at SIU, he also coached the National Junior Swim Team and national teams in Holland and France.
In total, Steele would go on to coach 25 high school and 145 NCAA All-Americans, with 21 world-ranked swimmers in 41 events. He has trained swimmers all over the world for the Olympics, world championships, and other international competitions. His expertise in coaching the sport continues to be tapped for clinics and camps in 21 countries. This year, Steele will be an American Swimming Coaches Association Hall of Fame inductee.
Steele is a two-degree graduate of SIU, earning bachelor's and master's degrees from the College of Education and Human Services in 1962 and 1963, respectively.


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House Snijman
Location: Stellenbosch
Date of Completion: March 1995
"Wonderful living spaces inside and outside"
When we bought a plot and decided to build, we knew exactly what we did not want, and had a few very specific ideas of aspects we wanted, but needed professional input (and a lot of it!) to put it all together. We wanted a house which would, most importantly, live well, rustic rather than grand, a Mediterranean influence and style (because it suits the environment), but also a bit of Africa (and definitely not a Tuscan villa!). We approached Ben, who produced a few proposals and sketches, and soon produced a result which reflected these requirements beyond what we expected or could have imagined.
The house was moved closer to the south facing street with a resulting large north facing private back garden. It was put at a slight angle to face exactly north (at the back), with a stoep and pergola for vines to provide shade in summer and allow the winter sun to penetrate the house. We wanted a rustic effect for the outside walls, allowing for the house to 'age' and avoiding the need to paint (and repaint). At the time we were building, this was quite a novelty, but Ben obtained the necessary information and this also became a reality.
The living areas was designed to be open and flowing, but with interesting corners and details. The kitchen allows for food preparation to become a social activity. The ceilings downstairs were made higher than normal to create a feeling of space.
The house is not big in so far as square meters are concerned (as per instructions from the owners…and the limitations with regard to funds….), but both the inside and outside create wonderful living spaces. Ben supervised the building process throughout, and in the following years we approached him again for minor additions and changes, as our circumstances changed.
It is now almost 20 years later, and we are very happy with how the house has aged and most importantly, how it accommodates the living style which we wanted.
Phil and Annetjie Snijman
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In the midst of Soho and moments from Mayfair, Ham Yard Hotel has an urban village feel. The hotel revolves around a tree-filled garden with a bronze sculpture centrepiece by Tony Cragg. Alongside the hotel's 91 individually designed bedrooms and suites are 24 apartments, 13 independent stores, and a restaurant and bar with outdoor dining. Each room is generously sized and features floor-to ceiling-length windows overlooking the leafy courtyard or across the London skyline.
There is a drawing room and library, spa, gym, theatre, private event rooms, and a 1950's style bowling alley. The rooftop garden has sweeping views of the Soho skyline. Interiors are designed by Kit Kemp in her award-winning modern British style. Ham Yard restaurant and bar has a frequently changing menu revolving around the freshest, seasonal ingredients and the best of British produce. The bar offers a selection of small plates. The books in The Library and Drawing Room have been carefully chosen by literary expert Philip Blackwell, to inspire and entertain.
Ham Yard is a village reopening historic Ham Yard and connecting Great Windmill and Denman Streets via a tree-filled public thoroughfare. The hotel is in the heart of theatre land and is surrounded by Soho's edgy bars, cafes, and shops. A block away is Mayfair with an array of sophisticated international luxury stores.
From London City Airport: Take Hartmann Road to Connaught Road. Take A1020, Lower Lea Crossing, Aspen Way/A1261, A1203 and A3211 to Great Windmill Street. Continue on Great Windmill Street Drive to Ham Yard. Turn left onto Great Windmill Street. Turn left onto Ham Yard.
On the 4th floor there is a large, leafy roof top garden with sweeping views over the London skyline. There is a lounge area scattered with Whitman benches and a bar.
There is a range of private rooms and event spaces at The Ham Yard Hotel.
The Croc is a spectacular private events space which houses an original 1950's bowling alley, stylish lounge, bar, and dance floor.
Ham Yard restaurant and bar has a frequently changing menu revolving around the freshest, seasonal ingredients and the best of British produce.
Ham Yard Hotel has a fully equipped gym with expert personal trainers.
Mini bathrobes, kids bathroom amenities, milk and cookies at bedtime, cots, high chairs, children's cutlery, children's books and board games, babysitting, family DVDs, and Sky TV.
Soholistic offers a full range of body and beauty treatments, to be enjoyed in one of the treatment rooms in the Soholistic Spa at Ham Yard Hotel or in the comfort of a guest room.
Ham Yard Village consists of independent boutiques dotted around a tree-filled pedestrian courtyard.
World-class attractions, galleries and museums can be reached from the hotel's central London locations - including the Natural History Museum, the Science Museum, the Victoria and Albert Museum V&A, Madame Tussauds, the London Eye, London Zoo, and the London Sea Life Aquarium.


Warning: The tale you are about to read is a story of sexual creatures, human or otherwise. This tale is for adults 18 and up.
Trystan finds himself waking in the middle of a forest with missing time and a strange tattoo over his heart. The young mage returns to the Elemental College of Stukarr to uncover his missing memories and discover the meaning of the unusual tattoo on his chest.
The young mage will soon learn that forces have taken notice of him. A dark plot will lead Trystan and his friends down a shadowy path with the mage's heart as the ultimate prize.
When the Mage Trials begin, Trystan must overcome his tests while trying to uncover locked away secrets.
A friend from his past will come to the mage's aid in his time of need. Relationships will be tested and Trystan must decide who his heart really belongs to.
Can Trystan succeed at his Trials? Will his best friend Nia test the boundaries their relationship? Will a friend tell Trystan her true feelings for him? Will the college endure when a terrible secret is exposed?


Bunnyhoppor punched his ticket to BlizzCON after winning the Hearthstone HCT Summer Championship and now, Hunterace is one step closer to joining him. The road to the Hearthstone HCT Fall Championship had its first stop in Italy. Competitors for HCT Italy included Illness, Benene, Casie, AKAWonder, Muzzy, Swidz, Vardu, and, of course, Hunterace.
The finals came down to Hunterace vs Vardu. Vardu took an early 2-0 lead beating Hunterace in the first round. Vardu ran Priest against Hunterace's Rogue deck which just couldn't overcome an Alexstrasza on the board. While he did draw a Vilespine Slayer, it was too little too late to take the first round.
The second round saw Vardu take the 2-0 lead, beating Hunterace with Malygos Druid. Hunterace ran Tempo Mage and while he was able to deal with big threats, like The Lich King, early after Vardu's perfect ramp, he ran out of steam and it allowed Vardu to draw his Malygos and with no way to get rid of his Twig of the World Tree, Vardu got the combo off and took a commanding lead in the series.
Round three saw Hunterace run Odd Paladin against Vardu's Rogue deck. A couple of Stonehill Defenders and a Hungry Ettin protected Hunterace, allowing him to push enough damage to get a victory on the board.
Round four saw Hunterace return to Tempo Mage against Vardu's Rogue deck. Hunterace was able to stall Vardu for two consecutive turns with back-to-back Doomsayers, allowing him to control the pace of the match. A couple of well-used meteors and a lucky Blizzard draw off a Raven Familiar caused Vardu to push through and tie the series up at 2 wins a piece.
The final round was a mirror match between both of their Odd Rogue decks. When I say mirror match, I mean exactly that as their plays up until turn five, while slightly different, we're very similar in the fact that they were both holding the same cards in hand with minor differences. In the end, Hunterace had lethal in hand with Leeroy, and double Cold Bloods with a fresh 2/2 dagger equipped. He had to avoid a taunt, which he did and he pushed face for exact lethal, taking home the prize and a seat at the HCT Fall Championship tournament!
Hunterace, who is from Norway and plays for Nordavind, is quickly becoming (if he isn't already) one of the best Hearthstone players in the world and his slow, methodical approach to each match here shows why he is the best. Even when playing Odd Paladin, he was faced with a decision between three one drops on turn one. He nearly used his entire rope to make a decision and while a turn one decision seems trivial to most, he proved that even at the start of a game, a simple one drop could end up swinging the tempo in your favor!
The next stop on the HCT Fall Tour is HCT Oakland. The event will take place from July 14 – July 16. Who will be the next to punch their ticket to the Fall Championship?
It should be worth noting that Vardu isn't out of this yet. He has already qualified for HCT Fall's final stop: HCT Tokyo which runs from July 27 – July 28.


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2 July, 2019 12:24:05 AM / LAST MODIFIED: 2 July, 2019 12:07:06 PM
Banks at risk as central security body absent
Only 3 out of 58 local banks certified by international Payment Card Data Security Standard (PCI DSS)
FAISAL MAHMUD, Dhaka
With increasing online financial transactions and the digitisation of banking processes, the need for systematic measures to combat hacking and cybercrimes has become imperative in Bangladesh's banking and financial sector. This became more apparent after three local private banks were hit by major cyber-attacks last month, raising concern about the robustness of their security systems against the growing threat of scammers.
Of the three, surprisingly Dutch Bangla Bank Limited (DBBL), which is known as the most tech-savvy among local banks in the country, was the biggest victim, losing as much as USD 3 million (around Tk. 25 crore) to global cybercriminals, according to sources in the banking sector.
The two other banks—NCC Bank and Prime Bank—also faced cyber-attacks, but they claimed they were able to avert financial losses.
This was the biggest cyber-attack after hackers made off with USD 81 million from the Bangladesh Bank (BB) account with the Federal Reserve Bank of New York around three-and-a-half years ago.
Voicing concern over the latest cyber-attack, a number of experts have criticised Bangladeshi banks for their lax attitude towards strengthening their IT systems, saying that this left them vulnerable to fraud. Experts said the absence of a centralised body to coordinate cyber security measures, such the Computer Security Incident Response Team (CSIRT), for the banking and finance sector was the main reason behind the repeated attacks on financial institutions in the country.
Out of the 58 banks in the country, only three—Eastern Bank Limited, City Bank and Mutual Trust Bank Limited—have got certification for complying with the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS) set by Visa, MasterCard, Discover Financial Services, JCB International and American Express. The only other local firm that has the certification is IT Consultants that runs Q-Cash, a payment processing consortium.
But DBBL, the bank with the largest network of cash machines and highest number of debit cards in circulation, does not have the PCI DSS certification.
Banks are not making enough investments to strengthen their IT security and human resources—this is one of the key reasons for vulnerabilities in their cyber security systems, said the IT department head of a leading private bank.
Experts said the absence of a centralised body to coordinate cyber security measures, such the Computer Security Incident Response Team (CSIRT), for the banking and finance sector was the main reason behind the repeated attacks on financial institutions in the country. CSIRT is considered as one of the most important mechanism in modern banking and a main protection measure against malware. It is an organisation that receives reports of security breaches, analyses the reports and responds to the senders.
A CSIRT can be an established group or an ad hoc assembly.
There are various types of CSIRTs, including a National CSIRT that oversees incident handling for an entire country. There can be sector-wise CSIRTs: for instance, the whole financial and banking sector of the country can have a CSIRT. Even an individual organisation like a bank can have its own CSIRT, which can be linked with the sector CSIRT for updates.
Incidentally in the past few years, several senior officials of commercial banks have asked Bangladesh Bank to establish a CSIRT, but to no avail. A senior BB official told The Independent that commercial banks have demanded a centralised CSIRT and asked the apex bank to coordinate efforts for its establishment. The official, however, added that a centralised CSIRT for the financial and banking sector cannot be established within a short period of time. Citing an example, the BB official said that in South East Asia, Sri Lanka had established a CSIRT for the banking and finance sector in 2014 after six years of planning and policy making. The Sri Lankan CSIRT for the banking and finance sector is hosted and managed by Lanka Clear (Pvt) Ltd under the guidance of that country's central bank with the assistance of the Sri Lanka Computer Emergency Readiness Team and Sri Lanka Banks Association (SLBA).
The official also said the Sri Lankan CSIRT implementation was not easy as they had to overcome many obstacles as well as the reluctance of banks to share sensitive information.
Similarly, the banks in Bangladesh have not reached a consensus for a centralised CSIRT and many of them are reluctant to share information.
Omar Faruq, secretary general of the Bangladesh chapter of Information System Audit and Control Association (ISACA), an international professional association focused on IT governance, told The Independent that a centralised CSIRT under the guidance and supervision of BB has become imperative for protecting the information security of the country's financial sector.
Faruq said that there was a growing need to protect financial data in the banking system as the country has already embraced internet banking, mobile banking, electronic cheque transactions, e-transfer of money, etc. He also said the importance of information security in the banking industry has grown rapidly at present.
"Under the circumstances, a centralised CSIRT under the umbrella of BB could have ensured a fool-proof security in the financial and banking sector," he added.
Faruq said a specific information security framework and guideline was also missing in Bangladesh. "The BB needs to come up with a specific framework and guideline, otherwise the measures for ensuring information security will be taken on a piecemeal basis, as it is being done right now," he noted.
He said that the Indian chapter of ISACA had aided the Reserve Bank of India to establish Control Objectives for Information and Related Technology (COBIT)—a framework created by ISACA for information technology (IT) management and IT governance—to regulate policies for information security.
"From the Bangladesh chapter of ISACA, we have offered our aid in establishing the framework. This is needed because even if an individual financial institution buys the highest security package for its own organisation, a security breach can happen because of one employee. A specific framework would ensure security efficiency at the employee level," he explained.
Talking to The Independent, Dr Vilius Benetis, CEO of NRD CS, a Lithuania-based cyber security technology consulting, incident response and applied research company, said the only way for the financial sector, both in Bangladesh and around the world, to be efficient and reliable was to be highly automated.
NRD CS is currently working as the consultant for Bangladesh Computer Council (BCC) for the implementation of the first National CSIRT in the country.
Benetis said the biggest risk for financial institutions and their clients were lack of proper knowledge on new threats—how to use methodologies, technologies, and cyber-hygiene. He also said the cyber security costs must be adequate to the value of the protected assets. Since more assets are moving into the digital world, more investments are required, he added.
Interestingly, he mentioned that owing to the availability of many security tools (both commercial and open source), cyber-hygiene was not that expensive now. "What costs most are the setups of appropriate processes and the training required to build the human skills," he added.
About the necessity of a financial sector CSIRT, Benetis said organisations in the financial sector should start from building their own CSIRT, adjust processes, and should then cooperate in an organised way with the sector CSIRT and the national CSIRT to achieve the security of their assets and clients.
MK/MK
With increasing online financial transactions and the digitisation of banking processes, the need for systematic measures to combat hacking and cybercrimes has become imperative in Bangladeshs banking and financial sector. This became more apparent after three local private banks were hit by major cyber-attacks last month, raising concern about the robustness of their security systems against the growing threat of scammers. Of the three, surprisingly Dutch Bangla Bank Limited (DBBL), which is known as the most tech-savvy among local banks in the country, was the biggest victim, losing as much as USD 3 million (around Tk. 25 crore) to global cybercriminals, according to sources in the banking sector. The two other banksNCC Bank and Prime Bankalso faced cyber-attacks, but they claimed they were able to avert financial losses. This was the biggest cyber-attack after hackers made off with USD 81 million from the Bangladesh Bank (BB) account with the Federal Reserve Bank of New York around three-and-a-half years ago. Voicing concern over the latest cyber-attack, a number of experts have criticised Bangladeshi banks for their lax attitude towards strengthening their IT systems, saying that this left them vulnerable to fraud. Experts said the absence of a centralised body to coordinate cyber security measures, such the Computer Security Incident Response Team (CSIRT), for the banking and finance sector was the main reason behind the repeated attacks on financial institutions in the country. Out of the 58 banks in the country, only threeEastern Bank Limited, City Bank and Mutual Trust Bank Limitedhave got certification for complying with the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS) set by Visa, MasterCard, Discover Financial Services, JCB International and American Express. The only other local firm that has the certification is IT Consultants that runs Q-Cash, a payment processing consortium. But DBBL, the bank with the largest network of cash machines and highest number of debit cards in circulation, does not have the PCI DSS certification. Banks are not making enough investments to strengthen their IT security and human resourcesthis is one of the key reasons for vulnerabilities in their cyber security systems, said the IT department head of a leading private bank. Experts said the absence of a centralised body to coordinate cyber security measures, such the Computer Security Incident Response Team (CSIRT), for the banking and finance sector was the main reason behind the repeated attacks on financial institutions in the country. CSIRT is considered as one of the most important mechanism in modern banking and a main protection measure against malware. It is an organisation that receives reports of security breaches, analyses the reports and responds to the senders. A CSIRT can be an established group or an ad hoc assembly. There are various types of CSIRTs, including a National CSIRT that oversees incident handling for an entire country. There can be sector-wise CSIRTs: for instance, the whole financial and banking sector of the country can have a CSIRT. Even an individual organisation like a bank can have its own CSIRT, which can be linked with the sector CSIRT for updates. Incidentally in the past few years, several senior officials of commercial banks have asked Bangladesh Bank to establish a CSIRT, but to no avail. A senior BB official told The Independent that commercial banks have demanded a centralised CSIRT and asked the apex bank to coordinate efforts for its establishment. The official, however, added that a centralised CSIRT for the financial and banking sector cannot be established within a short period of time. Citing an example, the BB official said that in South East Asia, Sri Lanka had established a CSIRT for the banking and finance sector in 2014 after six years of planning and policy making. The Sri Lankan CSIRT for the banking and finance sector is hosted and managed by Lanka Clear (Pvt) Ltd under the guidance of that countrys central bank with the assistance of the Sri Lanka Computer Emergency Readiness Team and Sri Lanka Banks Association (SLBA). The official also said the Sri Lankan CSIRT implementation was not easy as they had to overcome many obstacles as well as the reluctance of banks to share sensitive information. Similarly, the banks in Bangladesh have not reached a consensus for a centralised CSIRT and many of them are reluctant to share information. Omar Faruq, secretary general of the Bangladesh chapter of Information System Audit and Control Association (ISACA), an international professional association focused on IT governance, told The Independent that a centralised CSIRT under the guidance and supervision of BB has become imperative for protecting the information security of the countrys financial sector. Faruq said that there was a growing need to protect financial data in the banking system as the country has already embraced internet banking, mobile banking, electronic cheque transactions, e-transfer of money, etc. He also said the importance of information security in the banking industry has grown rapidly at present. Under the circumstances, a centralised CSIRT under the umbrella of BB could have ensured a fool-proof security in the financial and banking sector, he added. Faruq said a specific information security framework and guideline was also missing in Bangladesh. The BB needs to come up with a specific framework and guideline, otherwise the measures for ensuring information security will be taken on a piecemeal basis, as it is being done right now, he noted. He said that the Indian chapter of ISACA had aided the Reserve Bank of India to establish Control Objectives for Information and Related Technology (COBIT)a framework created by ISACA for information technology (IT) management and IT governanceto regulate policies for information security. From the Bangladesh chapter of ISACA, we have offered our aid in establishing the framework. This is needed because even if an individual financial institution buys the highest security package for its own organisation, a security breach can happen because of one employee. A specific framework would ensure security efficiency at the employee level, he explained. Talking to The Independent, Dr Vilius Benetis, CEO of NRD CS, a Lithuania-based cyber security technology consulting, incident response and applied research company, said the only way for the financial sector, both in Bangladesh and around the world, to be efficient and reliable was to be highly automated. NRD CS is currently working as the consultant for Bangladesh Computer Council (BCC) for the implementation of the first National CSIRT in the country. Benetis said the biggest risk for financial institutions and their clients were lack of proper knowledge on new threatshow to use methodologies, technologies, and cyber-hygiene. He also said the cyber security costs must be adequate to the value of the protected assets. Since more assets are moving into the digital world, more investments are required, he added. Interestingly, he mentioned that owing to the availability of many security tools (both commercial and open source), cyber-hygiene was not that expensive now. What costs most are the setups of appropriate processes and the training required to build the human skills, he added. About the necessity of a financial sector CSIRT, Benetis said organisations in the financial sector should start from building their own CSIRT, adjust processes, and should then cooperate in an organised way with the sector CSIRT and the national CSIRT to achieve the security of their assets and clients. MK/MK


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How Much Money For Us Open Winner – Carlos Alcaraz held off a determined challenge from Casper Rudd to win his first Grand Slam title at the US Open on Sunday.
6-4, 2-6, 7-6(1), 6-3 Alcaraz, who climbed to the top of the ATP rankings, will also be the beneficiary of the winner, who will be $26 million richer. Salary.
Rudd, who lost in his second Grand Slam final of the season, will become the new world No. 2 and earn $1.3 million in prize money.
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The final Grand Slam of the year raised a total of $42,628,000 and offered equal prize money for men and women.
American Frances Tiafoe and Russian Karen Khachanov, who lost in the semi-finals, received a salary equal to $705.
Andrey Rublev, Yannick Sinner, Matteo Berretini and Nick Kyrgios, who failed to reach the quarterfinals, each left New York with $445,000.
Those who lost in the fourth round received a salary of $278,000, while those who lost in the 32nd round received a check for $188,000.
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US Open players who missed the first round won $80,000, and second-rounders won $121,000.
In 2021, US Open champion Daniil Medvedev was handed a $25 million check, while Novak Djokovic earned $1.25 million for losing the final.
The 2022 edition of the US Open saw an increase in total prize money for all tournaments, offering $60 million compared to last year's $57.5 million.
Rafael Nadal failed to make it past the fourth round of the US Open, but the two great players who idolize the 22-time Grand Slam champion wowed fans with their performances in the final.
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Nadal was the first to tweet his congratulations in both finals after Carlos Alcaraz's unprecedented victory.
Felicidades @carlosalcaraz on your first Grand Slam tournament and ranking 1st.
Felicidades @carlosalcaraz on your first Grand Slam tournament and ranking 1st. 👏🏻Great job @CasperRuud98 !Proud of you! Today's success is tough, but an amazing tournament and season! Do it!
"Congratulations to @carlosalcaraz on your first grand slam and #1, the culmination of a great first season, I'm sure there will be many more! Great effort @CasperRuud98! Proud of you! Tough luck today, but an amazing tournament and season! Keep it up!" Rafael Nadal wrote about it on Twitter.
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The generous tweet showed the generosity of the tennis legend, who himself was in contention for the world No. 1 spot but ran away after Ruud and Alcaraz reached the final.
Nadal, who beat Casper Rudd in the French Open final earlier in the year, lost to giant-killer Francis Tiafe but lost to Carlos Alcaraz in the Madrid Open quarter-finals. Iga Svitek held off the challenge of Ones Jabeur to win the title. His third Grand Slam title and second this season with a 6-2, 7-6(5) victory at the 2022 US Open. Switek will continue her reign as world No. 1 in the WTA rankings, while Jabour will make a run at the US Open to the number two spot. Two tennis stars take home big paychecks from New York.
Switek, the 2022 women's singles champion, won $2.6 million, while Jabur received a $1.3 million check. Last year's champion, Emma Raduka, earned $25 million, while runner-up Leila Fernandez earned $12.25 million.
Like the men's draw, the women's singles draw has a total prize pool of just $426,628,000. Svitek and Jabur won $3.9 million as champions and runners-up, while semifinalists Arya Sabalenka and Caroline Garcia won $705,000.
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Meanwhile, Jessica Pegula, Karolina Pliskova, Coco Gough and Ayla Tomljanovic earned $445,000 for reaching the quarterfinals. Players who lost in the round of 16 were awarded $278,000 and players who reached the round of 32 were awarded $188,000.
Players who won in the first round won $80,000, and players who lost in the second round won $121,000. Meanwhile, the total prize pool of the qualifying tournament was $6.26 million, a huge increase compared to previous editions.
Including all competitions, the total prize purse for the 2022 edition will exceed $60 million, up from last year's total of $57.5 million.
"I'm so glad it's not cash," Iga Sviatek joked after winning $2.6 million at the US Open
Lucky Iga Svitek showed his funny side at the trophy ceremony after winning the 2022 US Open. As the host congratulated the Polish tennis superstar and handed him a check for $2.6 million, Switek joked that he was glad he couldn't cash in the prize money.
The win in straight sets in the final marks Swiatek's last 10 WTA singles finals without losing any of those matches. He has won 10 of the 11 tour-level finals he has played so far in his career.
Before the second set against Jabeur on Saturday, the Pole had not lost more than four games in his last 10 finals. He won the second set of the final on Saturday in a tiebreak.
The US Open title is Switek's first Grand Slam title on a surface other than clay. He has already won the French Open in 2020 and 2022. The US Open is the last Grand Slam tournament on the annual tennis calendar, and therefore the last chance for the world's best tennis players to win serious prize money.
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The US Open begins on Monday, August 29 and continues until September 11, when the men's final will be played at Arthur Ashe Stadium.
Prize money for the 2022 US Open has now been confirmed and will exceed $60 million for the first time in the tournament's history, and will be $20 million more than Wimbledon's prize money on offer earlier in the year.
As with other major tennis Grand Slam events, both the men's and women's winners receive the same prize money of $2,600,000 (a 4% increase in prize money for 2021) and whoever is eliminated in the first round. Still taking home a substantial $80,000 (6.67% growth in 2021).
Read on for the full 2022 US Open prize money breakdown. All figures are in US dollars.
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Nick Kyrgios is hoping to win his first Grand Slam at the US Open. Photo: Getty.
The US Open is the final Grand Slam on the tennis calendar and always starts on the last Monday in August and runs for two weeks in September. The 2022 US Open begins on Monday, August 29 and ends on September 11.
The US Open is held at the USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis Center in Flushing Meadows-Corona Park, Queens, New York and has been held since 1978. The USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis Center is home to tennis' greatest. Stadiums in the world. Main courts:
Australia's Nine Network has secured the broadcasting rights in a three-year deal until 2022. This means you can watch the US Open live and on demand via Stein Sport. There is also an option for Nine to broadcast some games live on Channel 9, but this has yet to be confirmed.
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Previously, ESPN was the official broadcaster in Australia, meaning the US Open was available to stream on Kayo Sport or Foxtel.
The 2021 US Open featured some surprising results, with Emma Radukanu particularly notable as she became the first singles qualifier to win a Grand Slam title in the Open era.
Get different perspectives and opinions from important experts on what to wear, what to buy, and how to live well. Emma Radukanu became the first British woman to win a tennis Grand Slam in 44 years, defeating Canada's Leila Fernandes 6-4. Won the US Open with a stunning 6-3 score
The 18-year-old Canadian defeated Leila Fernandes 6-4, 6-3 to become the first British woman to win a tennis Grand Slam in 44 years.
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It was a remarkable performance as he became the first qualifier to win a Grand Slam without dropping a set en route to the title.
After the tournament, Fernandez was humbled by her defeat: "It's amazing. I don't know what to say. It's going to be difficult today, but Emma played amazing. Congratulations.
"I'm very proud of myself and the crowd in New York is amazing. Thank you very much."
Radukanu was full of his praise
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Wozniak to second round in 20 minutes
Aleksandra Wozniak won't be tired for her second-round match at the $1 million Kremlin Cup in Moscow.
Her first-round encounter with tough Italian Sara Errani took just 20 minutes.
Errani, who took Wozniak to three sets on red clay in Rome earlier this season in their first meeting, retired with injury after losing the first set 6-1. She won just 12 points in the set.
Wozniak now awaits the winner between No. 3 seed Agnieszka Radwanska of Poland and Maria Kirilenko of Russia.
They play only Wednesday, so Wozniak won't have another match until Thursday.
In unrelated news, Wozniak's near-namesake, Caroline Wozniacki, retired from her first-round match against Anne Kremer of Luxembourg tonight while leading 7-5, 5-0. That's a new one, for sure.
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Applications of Nanotechnology in Medicine
7 years ago Milica Djekic
Nanotechnology can be viewed as the science and engineering included in the design, synthesis, characterization, and application of materials and devices whose smallest functional organization is on the nanometer level or one billionth of a meter. At these scales, consideration of individual molecules and interacting groups of molecules becomes important. Applications to medicine imply materials and devices designed to interact with the body at molecular scales with a high degree of specificity.
Nanotechnology and nanoengineering appear to produce important scientific and technological advances in diverse fields including medicine and healthcare. Materials and devices engineered at the nanometer scale imply controlled manipulation of individual constituent molecules and atoms in how they are arranged to form the bulk macroscopic substrate. This, in turn, means that nanoengineered substrates can be designed to exhibit very specific and controlled bulk chemical and physical properties as a result of the control over their molecular synthesis and assembly. For applications to medicine and healthcare, these materials and devices can be designed to interact with cells and tissues at a molecular level with a high degree of functional specificity, thus allowing a degree of integration between technology and biological systems. Nanotechnology is not in itself a single emerging scientific discipline but rather a meeting of traditional sciences such as chemistry, physics, materials science, and biology to bring together the required collective expertise needed to develop these novel technologies.
What is a Nanomaterial?
Nanoscience will impact the design and fabrication of new materials with innovative properties and functions. Contributions to this field include improving the properties of plastics, ceramics, coatings, composites, fibres and many more. Nanoscience also introduces an entirely new concept in material design. As a matter of fact, nature is a great source of inspiration to materials engineers.
The question: What is a'nanostructured material'? must be considered. Nanostructured materials are solids or semi-solids characterized by a nano-sized inner structure. They differ from crystalline, microstructured and amorphous solids because of the scale order. In contrast, microstructured materials show structural variation only on a micron scale, whereas amorphous materials exhibit short-range order only. In nanostructured materials, the spatial order is at the nanoscale, which lies between the microscopic and the atomic scale.
Nanostructured materials differ from conventional polycrystalline materials in the size of the structural units of which they are composed. They can exhibit properties that are drastically different from those of conventional materials. This means that in a nanostructured material there is a large proportion of surface atoms. Due to the large surface area, bulk properties become governed by surface properties. Examples of nanostructured materials are nanoporous, nanocrystalline, nanocomposite and hybrid materials.
Methods in Nanotechnology
Different methods for the synthesis of nanoengineered materials and devices can accommodate precursors from solid, liquid, or gas phases. In general, most synthetic methods can be classified into two main approaches: "top down" and "bottom up" approaches and combinations thereof.
"Top down" techniques begin with a macroscopic material or group of materials. The best known example of a "top down" approach is the photolithography technique used by the semiconductor industry to create integrated circuits. A similar approach has been used to develop microscale connected wells in agar. Other types of nanolithographic techniques are able to produce true nanoscale features in various materials.
"Bottom up" approaches, on the other hand, begin by designing and synthesizing custom-made molecules that have the ability to self-assemble or self-organize into higher order mesoscale and macroscale structures. The challenge is to synthesize molecules that spontaneously self-assemble upon the controlled change of a specific chemical or physical trigger. Good examples of this are biomineralization-type applications.
Other techniques attempt to mimic the ultrastructure of material without the requirement of deposition on pre-existing metal structures. As these technologies develop, it is expected that these advanced materials will not only provide desirable mechanical properties but also incorporate functional cell signaling properties.
Applications in Medicine and Healthcare
The application of nanotechnologies to the medical sector is known as nanomedicine. This area of application uses nanometre scale materials and nano-enabled techniques to diagnose, monitor, treat and prevent diseases. These include cardiovascular diseases, cancer, musculoskeletal and inflammatory conditions, neurodegenerative and psychiatric diseases, diabetes and infectious diseases and more. The potential contribution of nanotechnologies in the medical sector includes new diagnostic tools; imaging agents and methods; drug delivery systems and pharmaceuticals; therapies; implants and tissue engineered constructions.
But, why nanotechnologies? Nanomaterials, in nanomedicine, often go beyond 100 nm and up to about 500 nm. This is the size range of biomolecules. These natural nanomaterials are the constituents of larger hierarchical structures that regulate the function of the cell. Bacteria and viruses are larger. Basically, nanotechnologies make it possible to create engineering materials that have dimensions on the scale of biomolecules. Nanotechnologies have the potential to improve the whole care process that starts for a patient once a disease is suspected, from diagnosis to therapy. The aim is the development of new materials and methods to detect and treat diseases in a targeted, precise, effective and lasting way.
Recent advances in medical engineering include systems and devices that have a significant potential for improving the treatment of many disorders. However, despite this potential, these approaches all depend on bulk molecular engineering or chemical manipulation of macromolecular structures. Nanoengineered materials and devices designed to interact with cells and tissues or carry out biologically specific functions should offer a much greater degree of integration between technology and physiological systems. At present, applied nanotechnology to medicine and healthcare is at the basic science stage. In other words, the time of nanotechnology is just coming.
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Kartik Aaryan finally agrees to go on a coffee date with Sara Ali Khan.
Ever since Sara Ali Khan revealed her wishes of going on a date with Kartik Aaryan, it has been played over and over everywhere and even the actor has been asked for his reaction in every interview he has given till today. And now, finally Kartik has agreed to go on a coffee date with Sara.
Yes, you read it right! Recently, when Kartik was asked about it again, he reportedly said that he last heard about that was that Sara's mum advised her not to do anything more than she already has on this matter and let him react and reveal. He also added that he is up for a 'coffee date' with her and all she needs to do is let him know when and where.
Earlier, Ranveer Singh had also tried to set them up at an award show where he introduced them and looking them teasingly.
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Covid-19 further entrenched income, health, racial and educational inequalities across Hong Kong, experts say
Victor Ting
27 December 2020, 11:57 am ·13-min read
This is the eighth story in a series on the Covid-19 disease, one year after it first emerged in the Chinese city of Wuhan. It looks at how Covid-19 has exacerbated the inequalities in society, especially for blue-collar workers and the underprivileged, and how government policies have made things worse for them. Please support us on our mission to bring you quality journalism.
Death may be the great leveller, but the Covid-19 pandemic has exacerbated income, health, racial and educational inequalities for many who live in one of the richest cities in the world, according to poverty experts and low-income residents in Hong Kong.
In interviews with the Post nearly a year after the health crisis emerged, they explained how the poor fell further down the social ladder, how government policies made the situation worse, and shared their fears of a more unequal post-pandemic world.
Adans Wong was one of more than 20,000 Hongkongers who joined the expanding army of unemployed in February, just a month after the virus arrived.
"I had been living pay cheque to pay cheque before, so losing my job in the midst of a pandemic really hit me hard," he said.
The 49-year-old had been working four to five days a week as a waiter at a restaurant making between HK$6,000 (US$774) and HK$7,000 a month but was seeing his hours steadily cut as social-distancing measures kept customers away.
"The virus, which came on the heels of months-long social unrest, really dealt a hammer blow to businesses and livelihoods."
Adans Wong, who lost his job amid the pandemic, had to wait six weeks to get social benefits. Photo: Dickson Lee
Wong was paying HK$2,200 a month to share a 50 sq ft room in Tsim Sha Tsui with three other people, and after taking care of other bills such as laundry and his mobile phone service, he had little left to save. He lost his job on February 16 after his employer downsized in a bid to stay afloat. Desperate for cash, he turned to a social worker who helped secure an immediate, one-off HK$5,000 handout from an NGO programme for people who had suddenly fallen into poverty.
Wong pursued about a dozen jobs in the food and retail sectors but without any luck. In March, he applied for comprehensive social security assistance (CSSA), means-tested government welfare for those on low incomes.
But he faced a hurdle – civil servants had been ordered to work from home to minimise foot traffic and prevent the spread of the coronavirus. Although some essential and emergency services were kept open on a limited basis, Wong said Social Welfare Department branches responsible for handling CSSA applications were shut except for four or five days a month.
The social security safety net has holes and was not there for me in my hour of need
Adans Wong, unemployed Hongkonger
Wong also found himself having to explain the recent HK$5,000 placed in his bank account. After going back and forth with officials, and resubmitting documents on his financial status along with a copy of his lease, he finally received his first payment of HK$4,800 on May 7, six weeks after handing in his application.
Every dollar counted during the agonising wait and Wong relied on a charity-run food bank for staples. "I got canned beans, cereal and ate bread with soup to make myself feel less hungry," he said. "I really wanted to throw up because the food was so much the same and boring. It was more terrifying because you don't know how long the wait would last."
The experience only reinforced Wong's impression of Hong Kong as a deeply unequal society. "The social security safety net has holes and was not there for me in my hour of need," he said. "I was lucky I got help from outside the system, but it shouldn't have to be this way. The heartless government does not seem to care about us, the poorest members of the community."
The Social Welfare Department said waiting times for CSSA and other benefits varied from case to case, and the city's leader has recently named the department an essential service during the ongoing fourth Covid-19 wave and kept it open for welfare claimants.
But Fernando Cheung Chiu-hung, a former lawmaker from the Labour Party and a lifelong campaigner for underprivileged groups, said the government's failings went far beyond a single department and economic injustices were endemic in the official response to the pandemic.
More than 1.97 million Hongkongers, or more than half of the 3.85 million working population in the city, are earning less than HK$17,999 a month. Photo: Nora Tam
He argued the government's persistent refusal to create unemployment benefits that were not means-tested during the health crisis and its financial aid package, which centred on a multibillion-dollar subsidies to support struggling industries on the condition they kept their employees on their payroll, were geared towards the already rich and would only widen the wealth gap.
The Employment Support Scheme routed HK$80 billion (US$10.31 billion) and HK$250 million during two previous tranches, the second of which ended earlier this month. The programme, however, had not prevented companies from cutting other employee benefits or their work hours to reduce overhead, Cheung said.
"The result is some companies, like Cathay Pacific and i-Cable Communications, laid off hundreds or thousands of staff right after the subsidies ended," he said. "The money should have been paid directly into the workers' pockets. Instead, the government's bureaucratic thinking has ensured the economic gains went to the top, and the burden is shared unequally among Hongkongers."
Jobless rate could hit record high, experts warn, as unions seek more relief measures
Official figures revealed last week showed the jobless rate dipped 0.1 per cent in November on a three-month rolling basis, falling to 6.3 per cent, after a 16-year-high was recorded between August and October. But 244,300 people remained out of work. Unemployment in the food and beverage sector stood at 13.1 per cent, while every one out of 10 workers in consumption and tourism-related industries were jobless.
The picture is equally dire for other sectors. The Hong Kong Federation of Trade Unions released a survey earlier this month of 2,100 residents employed across all professions and found nearly 80 per cent of respondents had either been laid off, suffered a pay cut or forced to take unpaid leave.
According to the latest data from the Census and Statistics Department, more than 1.97 million Hongkongers, or more than half of the 3.85 million working population in the city, were earning less than HK$17,999 a month. Meanwhile, those earning HK$80,000 or more increased from 92,600 people in 2014 to 163,700 last year, a 76.8 per cent jump.
In a pandemic … it is always the poor and the marginalised who lose their jobs first
Fernando Cheung, former lawmaker
"I am worried the wealth gap could widen further still, as the second tranche of the employment support scheme has just expired," Cheung said. "In a pandemic, as in any economic downturn, it is always the poor and the marginalised who lose their jobs first. Only a government redistribution of wealth in favour of the workers can reverse that trend."
Hong Kong is battling the fourth wave of Covid-19, with the total number of cases at 8,610, with 137 related deaths. The latest surge, which started in November, has prompted the government to impose the toughest curbs yet on city life, including restricting public gatherings to two people, closing most entertainment and sports venues and ordering mandatory testing for high-risk groups.
In a now-viral TV interview, a resident of Kwai Shing West public housing estate, where people in one block were required to undergo screening after a cluster emerged, vented her anger at who she viewed as the source of the latest outbreak.
"All Hongkongers now hear the name 'Kwai Shing West estate' and think all of us are virus carriers," she said. "Has anyone thought about who infected us … who made us miss the winter solstice and have no Christmas meals to eat? It's simple. Go after the singing and dancing cluster. They have money and we don't. What can we do about it?"
She was referring to a pool of infections that arose out dancing venues frequented by numerous wealthy ladies which has ballooned to 732 cases and is blamed by many as the trigger setting off the fourth wave.
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Cheung said the government's delay in shutting down the dancing venues, as well as other activities such as large parties on private yachts, only fuelled perceptions of an uneven hand.
"It's always the poor at public housing estates who are woken up at night and hauled to quarantine centres," he said. "It looks to many that there is one rule for the rich and the powerful, and another for everybody else."
The brunt of the third Covid-19 wave was borne by elderly residents at overcrowded and poorly maintained care homes, such as Cornwall Elderly's Home (Golden Branch) in Tuen Mun (40 infections, 11 deaths) and Kong Tai Care for the Aged Centre in Tsz Wan Shan (46 infections, 8 deaths), while people who could afford home care were better off, Cheung said.
Dock workers at Kwai Tsing Container Terminals, the largest cluster in the third wave with 77 cases, were also hit hard as many were forced to share cramped resting rooms and bunk beds, he added. "The virus does not discriminate, but economic and social circumstances do."
Health inequalities could have consequences in a post-pandemic world, he suggested. "What I fear is these inequalities will be perpetuated as rich patients have access to private, quality rehabilitative care like physiotherapies, while the grass roots have a longer road to recovery," Cheung said.
Racial inequalities are worsening as well, according to Filipino Shiela Bonifacio, who argues migrant domestic workers such as herself had been singled out for blame in the latest coronavirus outbreaks that involved their dormitories, including a cluster centred on a boarding house in Tai Po that saw 14 helpers and their employers infected.
Shiela Bonifacio, chairwoman of Gabriella Hong Kong, says the pandemic has increased the workload of domestic helpers. Photo:Jonathan Wong
"Not all Covid-19 information is available and accessible to all migrant workers in their native language, but we are always very careful in taking care of our own hygiene and our own health, because if we get sick, it's not just us that are affected, it's our families in the Philippines and Indonesia who rely on our earnings here," said the chairwoman of Gabriella Hong Kong, a group championing migrant worker rights.
Bonifacio also defended domestic workers who visited friends in the dormitories on weekends, which some other locals believed had contributed to the spread of the virus. "We cannot go to a park, or Chater Road [in Central] because of social distancing, so we are forced to find a place to take a rest during our holidays."
We will not die of the virus, but we will die from overwork
Shiela Bonifacio, chairwoman, Gabriella Hong Kong
The pandemic had increased their workload, Bonifacio said, noting she now worked from 7am to 7pm with few breaks in between, as her employer was no longer going out every day. The child in the family was also staying home for online classes.
"In order for the employer to work at home, the domestic helper has to occupy the attention of the kids," she said. At the same time, we also need to finish the daily chores. We will not die of the virus, but we will die from overwork."
Bonifacio said the message from the government and employers to stay home on their days off to protect themselves from the virus also reeked of discrimination.
"From Monday to Saturday, our employers are asking us to go out to run daily errands, so what's the difference?" she asked.
Paul Yip Siu-fai, chair professor at the University of Hong Kong's Department of Social Work and Social Administration, agreed low-income groups such as domestic workers, blue-collar workers and their children have received the sharpest end of the stick during the pandemic.
A rise in coronavirus infections since November has prompted the government to impose the toughest curbs yet on city life. Photo: Sam Tsang
Yip was especially concerned with the impact on their mental health. "Employers who forbid their helpers to go outside on Sundays and public holidays are actually depriving their employees of free time and privacy."
The government's response to Covid-19 had failed to take into account its disproportionate effect on those who are less well-off, he said.
"The government tells everybody to stay home, and that's fine, but they need to grasp the reality of the situation and realise that not everyone's house is comfortable or big enough to relax or study in."
For Chan Hung-ying, a 38-year-old mother of three who migrated to the city two years ago, the pandemic also exposed some hard truths about inequalities in education and across the generations.
She lost her part-time job at a restaurant, but what concerns her most was the life opportunities available to her children.
Students without electronic devices could be left on wrong side of digital learning divide
The health crisis has forced schools to close for most of the year and students to switch to distance learning. A recent survey of 900 low-income families by the pressure group Alliance for Children Development Rights found 65 per cent of students had no computer suitable for online learning at home, while 21 per cent said they lacked Wi-fi networks.
In a flat no bigger than 200 square feet, Chan's eldest daughter, who is in Form Three, uses a borrowed iPad for her online lessons, while her second daughter who just began secondary school uses her mobile phone to learn. Her youngest, still in kindergarten, has no classes now.
"We do not have our own computers with big screens for the lessons," the mother said. "I am very worried my kids will have deteriorating eyesights and learn poorly."
Amy Chong, the eldest daughter, said her academic performance had suffered and she had fallen 10 spots in her form. "My English is the poorest, and it's harder for me to learn via a video link, with all the interactions and after-class questions with my teacher stripped away," she said. "My classmates from a more well-off background can boost their grades by getting a private tutor, but I can't afford it. I am worried I may not have the grades I need to choose the science subjects I love for next year."
Chan said the thought of her children not getting what they wanted in life now kept her awake at night. "We, the poor, have had it rough since January, and right now, I see no hope on how we can rebuild our lives after it."
Additional reporting by Thomas Shum
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Q: Set first and last date for 10 months I'm trying to write a code in cakephp to auto set the first and last date of months for 10 particular months fetched from a loop. Below is the form screenshot.
What I need: If the month is June from date should be 01/06/2016 and to date will be 30/06/2016 by default allowing the user to change the date. Here other months and year should be disabled. Similarly, if month is July it should be 01/07/2017 to 31/07/2016.
This should continue for 10 months from the current month. Below is the script
<script>
  //jQuery.noConflict();
  jQuery(document).ready(function () {

    $(".last_from_date").datepicker({
      dateFormat: "dd-mm-yy",
      changeMonth: false,
      maxDate: '0M',
      changeYear: true,
      yearRange: '1900:2020'
    });
    $(".last_to_date").datepicker({
      dateFormat: "dd-mm-yy",
      changeMonth: true,
      maxDate: '0M',
      changeYear: true,
      yearRange: '1900:2020'
    });

    $('.abc').click(function () {
      alert($(this).attr("id"));
      var id = $(this).attr("id");
      var a = id.split("-");
      var year = $.trim(a[0]);
      alert(year);
      var month = $.trim(a[1]);
      alert(month);

      var dat = new Date('1 ' + month + year);
      alert(dat.getMonth() + 1);
      //           alert(LastDayOfMonth(year,month));
      //            alert(x);
      //            $("#datepicker").datepicker("setMonth", newDate);

      var currentTime = new Date(dat);
      // First Date Of the month
      var startDateFrom = new Date(currentTime.getFullYear(), currentTime.getMonth(), 1);
      //// Last Date Of the Month
      var startDateTo = new Date(currentTime.getFullYear(), currentTime.getMonth() + 1, 0);
      $("#last_from_date_" + id).datepicker({

        dateFormat: 'dd.mm.yy',
        minDate: startDateFrom,
        maxDate: startDateTo
      });
    });

  });
</script>

Image of form with records

Each row has a class "abc" and the from and to boxes are datepickers.
ERROR: I'm unable to set dates to these.

A: i don't know exactly how to write that in javascript but as you say this is a cakephp app in php in generall it works like this if you know the year and the month:

$firstdateofMonth = date("Y-m-d", strtotime("$year-$month-1"));
$lastdateofMonth = date("Y-m-t", strtotime("$year-$month-1"));

("t" is always the last day of a given month).

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THE PROBLEM WITH ROLLING STONE'S REVAMPED LIST OF '500 GREATEST ALBUMS OF ALL TIME'
This week, Rolling Stone published a new and revamped edition of "The Greatest 500 Albums of All Time." The music magazine had initially printed a catalogue of what they described as a compilation of the greatest records of all time in 2003 and, with the exception of scant revisions in 2012, they left the list untouched – until now. While most entries and rankings boil down to matter of subjective taste, there remain some egregious decisions made by the Rolling Stone voting panel for which they deserve to be called out.
New Albums Are Far Too Young to Be Classics
The first and biggest problem with this ostensibly authoritative catalogue is that it does not adequately define which albums are eligible for a spot, and which are still too new. The overhauled list features dozens of new and younger artists – some of whom had barely even been born when the original list was made. Explaining the extensive changes and additions, Rolling Stone writes, "no list is definitive — tastes change, new genres emerge, the history of music keeps being rewritten."
The problem with this approach is that as new genres emerge – while they emerge – there is no way of telling which genres are doomed to be ephemeral fads and which will endure, and live to inspire new artists, and give birth to musical revolutions of their own. Only this latter clique of albums have earned their stripes by shaping and molding the mainstay of our contemporary musical canon.
Unfortunately, there is no way to envisage which albums will withstand the weathering and weeding out of time and which will be cast by the wayside. Music history is so rife with out of touch and aloof journalism that it had initially disregarded such illustrious classics as Led Zeppelin's titular debut (1969), Neil Young's Harvest (1972), The Rolling Stones' Exile on Main Street (1972), and even Nirvana's Nevermind (1991).
The only safe and sure way to know which album – or any form of art – will disseminate through generations and remain enshrined in the high halls of public opinion is through the passage of time.
To qualify for any "Greatest Albums of All Time" list, an artist ought to be well over a decade into their career – a Rock and Roll Hall of Fame induction demands 25 years. An album released last year by Taylor Swift may be the darling of contemporary critics, but whether it will be remembered decades on is a different story.
Today, we remember great records from the 1970s like Bob Dylan's Blood on the Tracks (1976) or Sly and the Family Stone's There's a Riot Goin' On (1971) or the Clash's London Calling (1979). But for each of these classics we still cherish, there were at least 50 records that have long since been forgotten.
This point is even more prescient in an era where technology has broken down nearly every barrier to creating music. In the 1970s, artists who wanted to record anything needed to convince record labels to rent them studios and invest in their craft. Today, entire albums can be recorded, mixed, and produced from the comfort of one's own bedroom – and they are! Billie Eilish and her brother conceived When We All Fall Asleep, Where Do We Go? a Grammy-winning record, entirely on their home computer. As a result, the market is consistently flooded with a deluge of new music, and the only way to separate the good from the true masterpieces is to let time to the sifting.
As a (likely intended) result of ushering in a whole host of new artists from the post-2000 era, many previously top-ranking classics have dropped, either disappearing from the ranking entirely, or ranking below newer, contemporary hip-hop artists. The new list is – to use the woke and progressive parlance of our times – no longer a collection of "old white guys."
Most notably, the Beatles' 1967 concept album, Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band lost its previously held number 1 spot, plummeting down to number 24 – below both Kendrick Lamar's To Pimp a Butterfly and Kanye West's My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy.
The Rolling Stones' cultural bookend to the 1960s, Let It Bleed, jarringly dropped ten points from 32nd down to 41st. The first double-LP in the history of rock music, Bob Dylan's Blonde on Blonde (1966), dropped from the top-ten down to a measly 38th place — lower than both Amy Winehouse' 2006 Motown pastiche Back to Black and a Beyonce album from 2016, Lemonade.
Even Chuck Berry's collection of singles that heavily inspired both the Rolling Stones and the Beatles dropped 30 points from 21st to 51st – now ranking below a new entrant: Jay-Z's 2001 album, The Blueprint' Roc-A-Fella.
Among other sins, we have a 2011 Drake album, as well as Frank Ocean's critically acclaimed 2016 record in the top 100, while The Who's 1979 rock opera epic and creative zenith, Quadrophenia, is nowhere to be found.
In his essay titled The Critic as Artist, Oscar Wilde wrote "A critic should be taught to criticise a work of art without making any reference to the personality of the author." In other words, the artist's personal traits – such as age, race, gender, or creed – should not dictate or influence how their art is perceived, or the objective qualities it possesses.
Rolling Stone and their panel of voters clearly disagree, as revealed by the dozens of indelible classics from the magazine's first list replaced by a much younger, more diverse and less tenured crowd.
In his autobiography, Life, Keith Richards provides a vivid brace of Wilde's argument as he reminisces on his early days listening to imported American blues as a budding English musician. "I didn't know Chuck Berry was black for two years after I first heard his music, and obviously long before I saw the film… And for ages I didn't know Jerry Lee Lewis was white. You didn't see their pictures if they had something in the top ten in America. The only faces I knew were Elvis, Buddy Holly and Fats Domino. It was hardly important. It was the sound that was important."
One must ask whether the sound is still important to Rolling Stone.
Stick to a Genre – Or At Least, Comparable Genres
Yet another puzzling decision from Rolling Stone is their inclusion of just one jazz album in the top 50: Miles Davis' 1959 album Kind of Blue at 31st, and far below its original ranking of 12th. Only two other jazz records, John Coltrane's A Love Supreme from 1965 (ranked 66th) and Davis' Bitches Brew from 1970 (ranked 87th) appear later in the compilation.
Rolling Stone tried to explain their placement of Kind of Blue writing, "Turning his back on standard chord progressions, trumpeter Miles Davis used modal scales as a starting point for composition and improvisation — breaking new ground with warmth, subtlety, and understatement in the thick of hard bop." However, modal scales were not even a concept pioneered by Davis. They had first been published in a book by jazz composer George Russel in 1953 (6 years prior to the Kind of Blue sessions) and employed by Charles Mingus in his 1956 record, Pithecanthropus Erectus (3 years prior to the Kind of Blue sessions).
The far more convincing explanation for sandwiching three token jazz records amid a sea of rock and hip-hop – somewhere between Drake and Beyonce – is that those are the only jazz albums most people have ever heard of. At that point, why not include a symphonic recording of Beethoven's Fifth Symphony? While Kind of Blue is indeed the jazz album that has pierced through the impenetrable wall of velvety cigarette smoke that separates the austere jazz listeners from the rest of the world, it is by no means the pinnacle of the genre. Kind of Blue invites with it an entire litany of diverse and eclectic jazz albums from Ornette Coleman's The Shape of Jazz to Come to Coleman Hawkins' Body And Soul, each rife with musical innovation and improvisation at a level far beyond anything offered by the four-chord pop progression cliches churned out by the music industry.
If any catalogue claiming to present some arbitrary number of greatest albums (or books, films, etc.) hopes to be taken seriously, it needs to be useful. At the very least, it ought to be something we could give anyone entirely unfamiliar with popular western art to introduce them to the best we have to offer. But Rolling Stone's revamped list of 500 Greatest Albums fails to achieve this, instead blending veritable classics with a dizzying array of disposable, modern chart-toppers, many of which will be forgotten by the time Rolling Stone decides to re-re-issue their list yet again.


One of my major goals for this website is to provide as many records as possible that contain the Maver surname and it's variants. As of this moment, I am working on creating a database of Maver obituaries, Scottish birth records, Scottish death records, and of course family trees. If you can help by contributing records to these databases, please contact me.
A database of Maver family trees submited to this site. Family trees are in decendant format.
A database of Maver obituaries.


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package ij.plugin;
import ij.*;
import ij.process.*;
import ij.io.FileSaver;
import java.awt.image.*;
import java.awt.*;
import java.io.*;
import java.util.Iterator;
import javax.imageio.*;
import javax.imageio.stream.*;

/** The File/Save As/Jpeg command (FileSaver.saveAsJpeg() method)
      uses this plugin to save images in JPEG format. */
public class JpegWriter implements PlugIn {
	public static final int DEFAULT_QUALITY = 75;

	public void run(String arg) {
		ImagePlus imp = WindowManager.getCurrentImage();
		if (imp==null) return;
		imp.startTiming();
		saveAsJpeg(imp,arg,FileSaver.getJpegQuality());
		IJ.showTime(imp, imp.getStartTime(), "JpegWriter: ");
	}

	/** Thread-safe method. */
	public static String save(ImagePlus imp, String path, int quality) {
		imp.startTiming();
		String error = (new JpegWriter()).saveAsJpeg(imp, path, quality);
		IJ.showTime(imp, imp.getStartTime(), "JpegWriter: ");
		return error;
	}

	String saveAsJpeg(ImagePlus imp, String path, int quality) {
		int width = imp.getWidth();
		int height = imp.getHeight();
		int biType = BufferedImage.TYPE_INT_RGB;
		boolean overlay = imp.getOverlay()!=null && !imp.getHideOverlay();
		if (imp.getProcessor().isDefaultLut() && !imp.isComposite() && !overlay)
			biType = BufferedImage.TYPE_BYTE_GRAY;
		BufferedImage bi = new BufferedImage(width, height, biType);
		String error = null;
		try {
			Graphics g = bi.createGraphics();
			Image img = imp.getImage();
			if (overlay)
				img = imp.flatten().getImage();
			g.drawImage(img, 0, 0, null);
			g.dispose();
			Iterator iter = ImageIO.getImageWritersByFormatName("jpeg");
			ImageWriter writer = (ImageWriter)iter.next();
			File f = new File(path);
			String originalPath = null;
			boolean replacing = f.exists();
			if (replacing) {
				originalPath = path;
				path += ".temp";
				f = new File(path);
			}
			ImageOutputStream ios = ImageIO.createImageOutputStream(f);
			writer.setOutput(ios);
			ImageWriteParam param = writer.getDefaultWriteParam();
			param.setCompressionMode(param.MODE_EXPLICIT);
			param.setCompressionQuality(quality/100f);
			if (quality == 100)
				param.setSourceSubsampling(1, 1, 0, 0);
			IIOImage iioImage = new IIOImage(bi, null, null);
			writer.write(null, iioImage, param);
			ios.close();
			writer.dispose();
			if (replacing) {
				File f2 = new File(originalPath);
				boolean ok = f2.delete();
				if (ok) f.renameTo(f2);
			}
		} catch (Exception e) {
			error = ""+e;
			IJ.error("Jpeg Writer", ""+error);
		}
		return error;
	}

	/**
	* @deprecated
	* replaced by FileSaver.setJpegQuality()
	*/
	public static void setQuality(int jpegQuality) {
		FileSaver.setJpegQuality(jpegQuality);
	}

	/**
	* @deprecated
	* replaced by FileSaver.getJpegQuality()
	*/
	public static int getQuality() {
		return FileSaver.getJpegQuality();
	}

}

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Ellen Yin and Eli Kulp Opening High Street on Market
by Collin Flatt Aug 20, 2013, 10:00am EDT
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High Street is moving in.
Photo: Midtown Lunch
Ellen Yin, the owner of highly acclaimed Old City stalwart, Fork, just announced that she's opening a new venture, High Street on Market. The new project is replacing Fork:etc. at 308 Market Street, which has had a successful existence next door to Fork for almost a decade. Yin said that they'll close up Fork:etc. this Friday, and High Street should be ready to go by mid-September.
Critical darling Eli Kulp will be the executive chef of High Street, which will feature his boundary-pushing food and sophisticated plating. High Street's menu will change quickly and spontaneously to highlight locally foraged ingredients, luxury elements, and a myriad of old school preservation techniques. More importantly, the restaurant will be open from early morning breakfast until late night snacks and drinks, and everything in between.
In the mornings, savory and sweet pastries and breakfast sandwiches will be available, and for lunch, Kulp and his crew will offer a variety of artisanal sandwiches, salads, pastas and more, all made from scratch daily. At night, family-style dishes, hand-crafted drinks, and plenty of dessert will wrap up the High Street experience. Throw in longtime front-of-the-house legend Paul Rodriguez as GM, and High Street looks to be one of the biggest Fall openings this year. Stay tuned.
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New York city remains one of the world's centers of commerce, industry and the arts. In addition to offering employment, the region also offers many amazing and exciting places to live. This is why people also want to live here. They know that the real estate in this area often allows them the opportunity to live in a luxurious area where they can dine out in fine restaurants, visit some of the world's best museums and see many new happenings each and every single week. Living in Manhattan can be fun, exciting and amazing all at the same time.
In a recent article in the New York Times, the writer points out that many people are still looking for just that right New York City apartment or townhouse. The writer also points that many buyers at the upper end of the market are happy to pay very high prices for the right to live here. This has lead to properties on the market often going for extremely high sums as buyers seek out luxury living and the right kind of amenities. High end buyers are happy to pay a lot of money to buy into the Manhattan real estate market and have the apartment they really want here.
Working with a company that has staffer who know the New York City residential real estate market such as those at TOWN is often one of the best ways for any buyer to locate the right apartment for them in New York City. Staffers at this New York based real estate agency often work closely with sellers and buyers to help them connect and get the best deal for their Manhattan property.
An apartment here will often involve many kinds of transactions, making it imperative that any buyer fully understands each particular aspect of buying an apartment in this region of the country. Staffers here know this and often do their best to provide highly skilled advice for their buyers to help them figure out the real estate price they can expect to pay for a property as well as well as any additional costs such as common charges that may include service charges each month.
Bruce and Karen Levenson launched the Center for Philanthropy and Nonprofit Leadership at the University of Maryland first with seed money and then with following financial gift. The Center features quite a few different innovative course for students to take. The money collected from these courses goes right to deserving nonprofit organizations. According to Time, Bruce Levenson himself, the "mission of the Center is twofold." This is because the Center is giving students the skills and experience they need to be the next generation of leaders for nonprofit organizations. Many students are often sought after to participate as fellows for the Smithsonian and the Mariott Foundation. Upon graduating, these students find full-time employment at the places where they once worked as fellows. According to Bruce Levenson, the Center has the potential for the most impact .
Searching for a residence in the New York apartments for rent community is getting a little more expensive and difficult to find. However, the residences available make the additional effort to find a residence in the New York area, well worth the effort. A Gorgeous property with picturesque sceneries, parks, cityscapes and gated communities is waiting for those willing to make the purchasing commitment.
New York real estate developers are finding Brooklyn's new developments selling fast and multi-family monetary volume went over a billion in September. Residential properties located in Midtown, Brooklyn and Manhattan is selling out quickly. Consumers in the New York area are buying up available homes faster than the market can produce. Whether the reason is living in the properties or investing for future income, absorption in Midtown East and Midtown is showing an interesting decline. Buyers with strong purchasing powers seek out Manhattan residential housing.
Town Residential is an important part of the New York landscape. Holding a nice share of high-end housing developments, Town Residential is having no difficulty selling homes in New York. The company has home located in Midtown, SoHo, Manhattan, Chelsea and others. Businesses and residents want to be a part of the New York culture. One way to do this is to live in this busy metropolis in beautiful developments.
Town Residential has everything in a property a consumer can imagine. Beautiful locations, homes with convenient shopping areas and developments close to excellent schools.
According to the" Real Deal" report, rents are on the increase in along Lower Fifth Avenue for commercial developments. Leases have remained at a steady level in Manhattan while monies paid to owners are improving. Developers and representatives of Town Residential are ready to assist buyers in joining the very lucrative New York real estate market.