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Cranes should be wary of midfielder Seydouba
KAMPALA. The Cranes recorded their biggest win of the current Afcon campaign, a 2-0, over Guinea two months back.
Despite that victory, Guinean midfielder Soumah Seydouba tormented the Cranes back-line throughout the game, particularly right back Denis Guma, who at times needed Andy Mwesigwa’s intervention.
With nimble feet, the attacking midfielder - who turns out for Slovakian club Slovan Bratislava - possesses the ability to beat his man and create chances for his teammates as seen during that game.
The 23-year-old is again expected to be used as the most creative weapon for the Guineans who require a win to ensure progression.
That will, however, not be the only worry for Isaac Isinde, who is again expected to play as the makeshift right back.
The diminutive player showed against Togo on Saturday that he also has the ability to score goals as he grabbed a hat trick. Guinea run out 4-1 winners.
This was in addition to the penalty he scored in the first leg against same opposition to take his tally to four goals this campaign.
The player has also netted five times in 13 appearances for his club this season.
CRANES SQUAD in MOROCCO
Dennis Onyango, Robert Odongkara, Andrew Mwesigwa (Captain), Godfrey Walusimbi, Isaac Isinde, Savio Kabugo, Habib Kavuma, Martin Kizza, Tonny Mawejje, Geoffrey Kizito, William Luwagga Kizito, Khalid Aucho, Farouk Miya, Brian Majwega, Mike Sserumaga, Geoffrey Massa, Robert Sentongo, Daniel Sserunkuma
GROUP E STANDINGS
Team P W D L GF GA GD Pts
Ghana 5 2 2 1 8 6 +2 8
Uganda 5 2 1 2 4 3 +1 7
Guinea 5 2 1 2 8 8 0 7
Togo 5 2 0 3 6 9 −3 6
Source: Daily Monitor
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Retailer-Backed Apple Pay Rival CurrentC Has Been Hacked, Testers’ Email Addresses Stolen
MCX (Merchant Customer Exchange), the coalition of retailers including Walmart, Best Buy, Gap and others, who are backing a mobile payments solution CurrentC meant to rival newcomer Apple Pay, has been hacked. The data breach involves the theft of email addresses. The CurrentC mobile application was not affected, the company confirms to TechCrunch.
Within the last 36 hours, MCX says it learned that unauthorized third parties obtained the email addresses of some of its CurrentC pilot program participants and other individuals who had expressed interest in the app.
The group has now notified its merchant partners about the incident and is communicating directly with those individuals whose email addresses were involved, a company spokesperson tells us.
At this time, it appears that only the emails of these early mobile app testers have been stolen, which is not as significant a data breach as having their payment data or other personal information, like home addresses or phone numbers stolen, as has been the case with other large-scale data breaches, like the one which took place over the last holiday season at Target, for example. In addition, many of these email address were dummy accounts used for testing purposes, which means there may not that many end users affected at this point, since the solution was still in its pilot phases.
However, MCX says it’s continuing to investigate the situation and will provide more updates as they arrive.
Below, is the email being shared with these users, in its entirety:
Thank you for your interest in CurrentC. You are receiving this message because you are either a participant in our pilot program or requested information about CurrentC. Within the last 36 hours, we learned that unauthorized third parties obtained the e-mail addresses of some of you. Based on investigations conducted by MCX security personnel, only these e-mail addresses were involved and no other information.
In an abundance of caution, we wanted to make you aware of this incident and urge you not to open links or attachments from unknown third parties. Also know that neither CurrentC nor Merchant Customer Exchange (MCX) will ever send you emails asking for your financial account, social security number or other personally identifiable information. So if you are ever asked for this information in an email, you can be confident it is not from us and you should not respond.
MCX is continuing to investigate this situation and will provide updates as necessary. We take the security of your information extremely seriously, apologize for any inconvenience and thank you for your support of CurrentC.
CurrentC, for those unfamiliar, is a group of over 50 retailers who have been working to develop their own mobile wallet technology. Essentially, they want to own the mobile wallet experience for themselves, instead of turning it over to a company like Apple, whose Apple Pay mobile payments solution prevents them from gaining access to customer data. Instead, retailers involved with MCX want to use mobile payments as a way to learn more about their customers’ shopping behavior, which could mean they could better target offers to them in the future.
The system works via a mobile application, live now on the app stores, called CurrrentC. It’s sort of clunky tool when compared with Apple Pay, as it involves the use of QR codes. But some retailers, like Starbucks, have seen success with QR codes, and these special barcodes aren’t tied to one platform, like Apple’s so it makes sense that this is the technology the retailers would adopt. (More on CurrentC is here.)
CurrentC began making headlines recently, when retailers involved with the initiative shut off NFC in their stores. NFC is the technology that makes Apple Pay and other NFC-based payment solutions, including Google Wallet, work. Customers were trying to use Apple Pay at stores like Rite Aid and CVS, where at first Apple Pay-initiated payments were functioning properly, thanks to the retailers NFC-enabled point-of-sale terminals.
But then those retailers disabled NFC entirely at their registers, ending their unofficial support for Apple Pay. The problem, apparently, stemmed from the fact that retailers’ contracts with MCX states they’re not supposed to accept rival mobile payment products.
Source:techcrunch
Uganda beat USA, face Malaysia
After three wins in as many matches at the ongoing Pepsi ICC World Cricket League (WCL) Division Three in Malaysia, there is optimism in Uganda’s camp that they can rewrite the winning script of 2007 in Darwin, Australia.
This is after the Cricket Cranes maintained their unbeaten streak with a 24-run Duckworth and Lewis method victory over USA at the horseracing Selangor Turf Club in the Klang Valley yesterday. And in the early hours of today, coach Peter Kirsten’s troops will walk onto to the Bayeumas Oval to play hosts Malaysia for the second time in history with less pressure.
For now, Uganda’s bid to seal a ticket to next year’s WCL Division Two showpiece in Namibia is so intact thanks to opening batsman Roger Mukasa, who put in a match-winning performance to help Uganda to their fourth win over the Americans in seven meetings yesterday.
After skipper Frank Nsubuga won the toss, Mukasa firmly backed his brother’s decision to bat first when he struck a pivotal half-ton of 71 runs off 100 balls to help Uganda set 215.
In his 122-minute innings, the 25-year-old clobbered four boundaries and two maximums to move his tournament tally to 119 runs in three matches – now fifth on the batting chart.
Before he suffered lbw (leg before wicket) by Danial Ahmed (2/36) for the third wicket, Mukasa had shared an opening 42-run partnership with Arthur Kyobe (8 off 31) and a second 51-run stand with Hamu Kayondo (21 off 55).
Despite Timil Patel’s figures of 3/42, assistant captain Brian Masaba (36 off 47), Philemon Mukobe (27 off 47), Nsubuga’s (17 off 7) late explosion and 23 extras were enough to guide the East African nation to the tourney’s third highest team score.
Due to rains, the Americans’ response was delayed and their target was revised to 153 from 35.4 overs. Nsubuga was clinical and tore through the Americans’ top-order for modest figures of 4-14.
Despite Srini Santhanam’s 37 off 73 and Karan Ganesh’s (22 off 54), USA were condemned to their second tournament defeat. Today, Nsubuga and company must watch out for Malaysia skipper Ahmed Faiz who leads the batting charts with 176 runs in three innings.
YESTERDAY’S RESULTS
Bermuda 257/8 Malaysia 179/7
Bermuda won by 37 runs (D/L method)
Nepal 263/9 Singapore 73/10
(Nepal won by 190 runs)
Uganda 215/8 USA 128/6
Uganda won by 24 runs (D/L method)
TODAY, 5.15AM
Malaysia vs. Uganda
Nepal vs. USA
Bermuda vs. Singapore
Source: monitor.co.ug
What some women do to lose weight
By virtue of their natural reproductive role, women often have to deal with weight they do not want or cannot afford at one point in their lives. With the increasingly sedentary lifestyle of the urban woman, weight is becoming harder to lose. This has led some Ugandan women to consider all manner of options in a desperate bid to shed the unwanted weight. While some efforts have not worked, there are some women who finally found their remedies.
BBIRA KAFUMBE’s story
Bbira Kafumbe, popularly known as Bbira, is a Ugandan IT Project Manager, residing in Atlanta Georgia, USA, with her husband, a five-year-old daughter and two-year-old son. She is also the founder of Lose It Africa, a weight loss programme; www.loseitafrica.com or https://www.facebook.com/loseitafrica . She shares her story;
“I gained a significant amount of weight while pregnant with my first child. After my first pregnancy, I continued to struggle with weight and taking the baby weight off. Initially I was so desperate to lose weight fast; I tried quick fix diets, which never gave me long lasting results.
I would lose weight but regain it due to relapsing to old unhealthy eating habits. I tried getting a personal trainer, but did not get any changes as I now realise I was not eating right, consuming foods high in sugar like processed juices, chocolates, deep fried foods like samosas, doughnuts, bad carbohydrates like chapati, etc.
I continued to be frustrated and unhappy as my self-esteem was low. I was struggling with clothes in my wardrobe fitting too tightly resulting in a lack of confidence in myself. I almost gave up on weight loss, but I decided to give it one more shot by doing what I had not done before. I substituted unhealthy foods for healthier ones, reduced my food portions, tracked what I ate, and exercised almost on a daily basis (High Intensity Interval Training).
How I started my journey
I was talking with a friend who was just starting her weight loss journey and trying to beat her cravings for ice cream and pasta. As we spoke, she made a statement that changed my life for good. She said, “Bbira, we are what we eat”. I realised how I sabotage every little effort I put in losing weight after exercising so hard in the gym with what I eat. This was in the past before I started my weight loss journey.
That is when I realised I did not have the right foods on my daily menu (things like fruits and vegetables).
I also started researching on people who have lost weight and what had worked for them and became highly interested in living a healthy lifestyle.
What worked:
• Setting realistic and achievable goals e.g. I started jogging five minutes a day then increased to 15 minutes. Within three months I was preparing for my first five kilometre run.
• I have a high drive when it comes to exercises. I push hard and try to challenge myself from time to time with alternate new workouts.
• Portion control. I started to be more mindful of the serving sizes I consumed and tracking what I eat.
• Support from friends with the same goal and always surrounding myself with people who provide a positive environment for weight loss.
• Substituting unhealthy foods for healthy ones. Substitute sodas with sparkling water, for instance.
• It is key to reward yourself during weight loss to acknowledge your success, for example, buy yourself a new outfit.
• Be accountable, weigh in weekly.
What does not work
• Diets provide short-term weight loss but soon get boring and hard to stick with and that’s why the relapse rate is high.
• Depriving yourself of the foods you love. Occasionally, it is okay to indulge in foods you love. I use the 80/20 rule. 80 per cent of the time I eat healthy and I leave room for flexibility 20 per cent of the time to be able to indulge without guilt or worries.
Eating right 100 per cent of the time is not realistic and you can easily get discouraged trying to maintain this.
The crazy things I have tried out
Quick fix diets, weight loss pills and slimming tea offer short-term results for weight loss but fail in the long run. Others have side effects to our health, for example, slimming tea when consumed in excessive amounts can cause diarrhea, vomiting, stomach cramps, chronic constipation and fainting due to dehydration.
How much weight did you lose and how long did it take?
I lost more than 20kgs within six months from the time I started my weight loss journey. I am now maintaining a healthy body weight that I enjoy with the same techniques I used to shed off the weight.”
Psychologist’s take
David Kavuma of Adonai Counselling Services explains why issues of body weight are more important to women.
Why does the issue of weight gain and loss such a big deal to more women than men?
In most cases, research has shown that women are very conscious when it comes to health issues. Even if you visited any health centre, you would probably find there more women than men. Women are more likely to get involved in and adhere to weight loss measures in order to improve their health.
Why does it seem more popular today for women to lead healthy lifestyles and maintain healthy weight gain? Where is this trend coming from?
A number of factors have led more women to go in for weight loss, among them;
• The increased awareness due to the increase in number of service providers like gyms.
• Peer pressure, where someone wants to look like another person who has lost weight
• Health workers are advocating for it.
• Often, excessive weight impacts sexual performance so there is a need to perform better sexually.
• Women strive to lose weight in order to have better hygiene.
There is also a higher tendency towards obesity and thus the resulting need to lose weight. Factors contributing to obesity include:
• Stress: Some people say that when they are stressed, it affects their diet and they tend to overeat or eat junk food.
• High level of inactivity/sedentary lifestyle: People spend more time travelling in cars and riding on boda bodas and they hardly walk. Women are living comfortable and exotic lifestyle.
Source: hellouganda.com
Matsiko making the most out of tourism
In 2017, Jowet Matsiko started a tour and travel agency with Shs4m. The soft spoken 27-year-old Matsiko reveals that he was able to grow his business and is now valued at Shs50m in less than three years. At 24 years, Matsiko realised his childhood dream when he bought his first car in September, 2016. All he wanted was to fulfill his passion of travelling.
At that time, he was in his second year at Kampala International University (KIU) pursuing a degree in Information Technology.
However, three years down the road, the young and ambitious entrepreneur has nurtured his passion into a successful tour business.
Armed with Shs4m he had saved during his working days in Juba, South Sudan, Matsiko bought his first car, a second hand Ipsum. All he wanted was to travel with friends from campus to the beach for fun during weekends. However, he set a condition for his friends to contribute fuel. But since he only drove the car during weekends. Matsiko decided to hire it out.
“I got a driver who agreed to pay me Shs120,000 for using it six days and I would have my car on Sundays, I would also earn extra income from students since I got a balance on the money contributed for fuel,” he says.
After two months of hiring the car out, Matsiko realised the driver was delivering less money than agreed upon. “The driver started giving excuses. So the money started reducing; when the money dropped below Shs80,000, I decided to get back my car,” Matsiko recounts.
Matsiko realised to keep making money, he had to change strategy.
“When I got the car from him, I decided to drive it myself and would only ply two routes; that is Jinja and the airport. I would also market the business at campus to students and lecturers because for any business to succeed, you start with the people around you,” he says.
Venturing further
Whereas most of the clients Matsiko received travelled to and from the Airport, he got his first major breakthrough in November 2016 when his Indian lecturer gave him a deal.
“I was marketing my business during a lecture, my lecturer got interested and told me that he wanted someone to transport his brothers coming from India to Jinja for a tour. We agreed, and I was paid Shs500,000 for the journey,” Matsiko explains.
From then, Matsiko says he developed love for tour business. Apart from chauffeuring foreign tourists to hotels. He started casting his net in deeper waters mainly targeting tourists travelling to tourist sites such as national parks who paid handsomely.
Jinja still was his first major destination, especially with local tourists and a few foreign tourists. And still he engaged students who would travel to Jinja for fun.
Since he was more conversant with Jinja, he played both roles of a driver and a tour guide; and also charged $150 (about Shs550,000 shillings) for a trip.
Whereas he would get clients, his car started to constantly breakdown leading him into more repair costs which ate into his profits. By January, Matsiko could not withstand the high costs of repair and decided to sell it off.
“I sold it off at loss of Shs2.5m. Then I started to hire cars to ferry my clients which proved expensive and inconvenient,” Matsiko says.
As his interest in the tour business grew, he felt the urge to swim alongside sharks and decided to formalise it by registering Gild Tours and Logistsics Ltd. In February, 2017 he engaged a lawyer who helped him register. That same month, he opened a Facebook page to market the business and also paid for its boosting to reach many people.
But since he was still at university, he lacked the necessary money to open up an office space.
“I would meet my clients at restaurants in the city and other hangouts. I used to lie to them that I was out of office yet in actual sense I had no operating space,” Matsiko explains.
Source: Daily Monitor
Fufa gets Shs 300m package from Bidco Ltd
In spite of the various on-field setbacks and boardroom controversies surrounding local football, the sport continues to attract sponsorship with Bidco’s Shs 300m package to Fufa the latest, writes ELLY KYEYUNE.
Bidco Uganda yesterday signed a deal amounting to Shs 300m with Fufa for a period of three years. The sponsorship will basically help the Cranes in its preparations for various upcoming engagements locally and internationally.
Handing over the dummy cheque to Fufa president Moses Magogo, Bidco Uganda Limited managing director Kodey Rao said they are delighted to join hands with other Ugandans in supporting national team, The Cranes.
“I thank Fufa for giving us opportunity to partner them in supporting the national team. We have always wanted to join them,” he said at a function held at Serena hotel in Kampala.
He added that although Bidco have entered a three-year deal, other sponsors are free to join them and at its expiry, there will be an option of renewing the partnership.
On his part, Magogo said sponsorship is one of the pillars on which ‘Project Cameroon 2019’ will be built and hence this money will help a lot in players’ development. Bidco joins Airtel, NIC and Nile Special in sponsoring the national team.
Source: The Observer
5 of the most elegant American cars
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1. 1963-65 Buick Riviera
Hagerty
The 1963 Riviera was the result of GM design head Bill Mitchell’s desire to produce something that was a combination of a Rolls-Royce and a Ferrari. Whether he succeeded in that odd mash-up is debatable, but the 1963-65 Riv was a thing of great elegance and simplicity, particularly the 1965 model with hidden headlamps. Introduced at the height of Camelot, it was as elegant as Jackie Kennedy herself.
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2. 1956-57 Continental Mk II:
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The Continental was emphatically not a Lincoln, even though it shared the name of numerous products of that division of the Ford Motor Company. For two brief years, Continental was a division unto itself and the Mk II may well have been the most elegant post-war car built in America. Costing the then-unheard-of sum of $10,000 (the equivalent of almost $87,000 in today’s money), the care and craftsmanship that went into each car ensured that Ford still lost money on each one. Elvis, Frank Sinatra and Elizabeth Taylor were all Continental owners. The Hilton Head Island Motoring Festival and Concours d’ Elegance is featuring three examples built for the Ford family at this year’s show on Nov. 2.
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3. 1953 Studebaker Regal Starlight coupe
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Famous industrial designer Raymond Loewy put together a team of talented designers that included Robert Bourke to design a car like no other of the 1950s. Low, sleek and incredibly elegant, the Regal Starlight is largely forgotten today by all but the most diehard car collectors and fans of the long-defunct Studebaker Corporation of South Bend, Ind.
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4. 1975-79 Cadillac Seville
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In a decade not necessarily known for elegance (heaven knows how many high school kids rode to prom in dad’s Seville wearing powder blue polyester tuxedos), the Seville stood out against the odds as a particularly elegant design. Not only was it handicapped by being a product of the 1970s, but it was the first time that a substantial number of Chevrolet components were used in a Cadillac (it shared the same underpinnings as the Nova). But this was no Cimarron. The first-generation Seville was elegant, restrained and every bit a Cadillac. Although it was the smallest car in the lineup, it was the most expensive and it looked the part.
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5. 1956 Chrysler 300B
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The first of the 300 “letter-series” (the 1955 C-300 was never actually called the “300A”), it was probably the prettiest Mopar design of the 1950s. Its pillarless hardtop design and restrained use of chrome were wildly inconsistent with the over-the-top performance that the car was capable of delivering from its 355-hp, 354-cubic-inch Hemi V-8. It terrorized NASCAR back in the day.
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